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An in-depth exploration of the Trump Organizations possible communications with a Russian bank in The New Yorker sheds new light on just how flawed a New York Times report on the suspected collusion was when it came out days before the 2016 election.
A lengthy piece by Dexter Filkins in The New Yorkers Oct. 15 issue asks, Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign? Filkins spoke to many of the same players that the Times Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers did for their more conclusively titled October 2016 report, Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia.
The impressions the two stories leave on readers could not be more different. The Times story prompted its own ombudsman to conclude, on Trumps inauguration day, that the paper had erred in not reporting on the unexplained but damning leads about Trumps Russia connection before the election.
The error is even more glaring two years since the storys publication, after reading the evidence Filkins presents.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-yorker-new-york-times-trump-russia-story_us_5bbe476ae4b01470d05839a7
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)Is it possible there is an innocuous explanation for all this? one unnamed computer scientist who looked at the data asked The New Yorker. Yes, of course. And its also possible that space aliens did this. Its possible ― just not very likely.
Max and his lawyer decided the best course of action would be to hand the data over to Lichtblau, who had done some breakthrough reporting on National Security Agency surveillance, Filkins reported.
Not only is there clearly something there but theres clearly something that someone has gone to great lengths to conceal, Lichtblau told The New Yorker, reflecting on his initial hopes for the story.
But the Times article that ran on Oct. 31 was different than the one Lichtblau turned in, and made no mention of Max and his team. The Times executive editor Dean Baquet had charged that it was unethical to report on the existence of these server-to-server contacts without knowing their content or purpose.
Instead, the story relied on unnamed FBI sources who said the bureau had ultimately concluded that there could be an innocuous explanation, like a marketing email or spam, for the computer contacts.
Many computer scientists had also concluded that, but the story omitted how implausible they thought those innocuous explanations were.
The Times story left readers with the overall impression that Trumps campaign had been exonerated ― which could have swayed readers still mulling over their vote.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)kudos to the New Yorker.
watoos
(7,142 posts)A server in Trump tower and a server in Alfa bank in Russia that basically only communicated with one another.
A journalist asked Alfa bank about the server and 2 days later the server in Trump tower was shut down, what does that tell you? No one asked about the Trump tower server.