Lightly Redacted: There's a fatal flaw baked into the bombshell WaPo report on Barr's redactions

[TheBlackAdder]

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It looks like WaPo did some cover for Trump & Barr, by reporting that there would be light redactions.

This claim was carried over most of the television, online and print media.

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So it gave the impression that Barr was going to be straight-up and present most of it, not redact 50%.

The Post reported Wednesday that the highly anticipated report will be “lightly redacted” by Attorney General William Barr, and the report also claimed special counsel Robert Mueller believed President Donald Trump may have acted “innocently, and that the Department of Justice briefed the White House only on “general outlines” of the investigation’s findings.

Those explosive claims each made news in their own right, but there’s one big problem with the newspaper’s reporting, according to Dan Lavoie, a speechwriter and senior adviser to former New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman.

Lavoie noticed that each of the report’s bombshell claims was an opinion presented as fact, sourced to “people familiar with the matter.”

The Post acknowledges that inherent contradiction seven paragraphs in, but does not make clear that the sourcing for the report was “obviously,” according to Lavoie, political appointees in the Department of Justice.

“The entire piece is a pre-pre-spin to Barr’s pre-spin presser tomorrow,” Lavoie said. “The story is focused laser-like on deflating the growing firestorm.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/theres-fatal-flaw-baked-bombshell-wapo-report-barrs-redactions/

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[mr_lebowski]

1. It's like RawStory is copying my DU posts lol ... from yesterday when the article came out ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2304455