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Originally Posted by whell

Only if a class action can be brought against WaPo, the NY Times, etc. for doing the same. At the very least, those involved in the reporting on this should now be embarrassed enough to give back their Pulitzer.

The Post and Times reported correctly that Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that Russia was helping the Trump campaign. They also revealed that the Russians hacked the DNC, Trump had an ongoing real estate deal in Moscow during the campaign, that Trump sold boatloads of condos to Russian oligarchs looking to launder money, Paul Manafort had lobbied the Republican convention on behalf of pro-Russian oligarchs and was indebted to a Russian intelligence asset with whom he shared campaign polling info, Mike Flynn was paid $45,000 by Russia Today in 2015 for a speech he gave at a banquet where he sat next to Putin and later lied to FBI about his calls with the Russian ambassador about sanctions during the transition, Carter Page met with Russian intel agents, Roger Stone collaborated with Wikileaks (which was labeled a Russian asset), Junior set up a secret Trump Tower meeting with Russians, Jared tried to set up a back-channel to the Russians thru their embassy and many more suspicious things.

Failing to investigate these ties would have been a breach of the FBI's counterintelligence duties. This was initiated as a counterintelligence investigation into Russia and ended up showing their involvement in the election on Trump's behalf and that Trump and his campaign were clearly shown to be, at a minimum, Putin’s useful idiots.

Meanwhile, Fox News reported on something they knew to be a lie and which contributed to a violent attack on our democracy. Meanwhile, Durham failed to get even one of 24 jurors to buy into his bullshit in 2 trials in 2 different jurisdictions (DC and NoVa).