Last night I was invited on NewsNation with Chris Cuomo to discuss Tulsi Gabbard’s Trump-Russia documents. Just before going on, I learned Chris planned to argue against Tulsi’s report as “dangerous” and a “conflation” and I’d be sharing the segment with Michael Isikoff, a central (if sometimes penitent) player in the Trump-Russia deception. At Yahoo! in September of 2016 Michael ran “U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin,” the first major story tied to the “well-placed Western intelligence source,” eventually revealed to be British ex-spy Christopher Steele. The piece, which called former Trump aide Carter Page a “possible back channel” to the Kremlin in September 2016, would eventually be used in a fraudulent FBI warrant application to obtain FISA authority on Page. That wasn’t Michael’s fault, but it wasn’t a proud moment, either.
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