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(11,238 posts)I was interested in the whole timeline because of the botched way Maggie Haberman wrote her story. So I did some googling:
David Brock was quoted in the Mother Jones article (the one with the vegan recipe you've been seeing posted repeatedly) as saying he first conceived of Correct the Record in the summer of 2013.
But apparently it didn't launch right away, as I learned in this Slate article about David Brock:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/07/david_brock_s_correct_the_record_the_former_right_wing_operative_is_hillary.html
So the NYT was right on that: Correct the Record was founded five years after HRC's 2008 campaign ended. I haven't been able to pinpoint the month Strider was hired by CTR, or the exact month he was fired, but he was most definitely gone from the organization by the time HRC launched her second campaign, which was in April of 2015.
I offer this in the interest of accuracy. Also because I've spent so much time on this stupid controversy that it might as well be useful in some way. I hate misinformation because I hate the erroneous conclusions it makes people draw (I don't mean you, I mean the other insistent commenters on these threads).