The New York Times, Washington Post and NBC News have recently silently retracted false reports about the FBI’s involvement with Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani over Russia. These reports stated that Giuliani was warned by the FBI that he was a target of Russian intelligence.
The reports were published after the FBI executed a search warrant for Giuliani. The reports said the searches were related to Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, but Giuliani said he believed authorities issued the warrant because he allegedly failed to declare his representation of Ukrainian nationals or offices to the Department of Justice (DOJ). He has since denied any wrongdoing.
The Washington Post was the first media outlet to report the misinformation and mistakenly stated that the One America News Network (OANN) had received a similar warning from the FBI. In a corrective note, the newspaper’s editors later said, “The story has been corrected to remove the reference to OANN and Giuliani receiving the warning.”
Later, the New York Times also corrected a story about Giuliani’s possible role in the 2019, U.S. recall of Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch to Ukraine.
In a correction, the New Times editors wrote: “An earlier version of this article misstated whether Rudy Giuliani received a formal warning from the FBI about Russian disinformation. Mr. Giuliani received no such defensive briefing (defensive).”
At the same time, NBC also detailed the reason for the corrected report, saying that the second source disputed the first source’s assertion that the FBI, while preparing a warning message for Giuliani, did not deliver the message to him. In the NBC report, both sources were quoted anonymously.
NBC wrote in a news correction, “The story is based on a source familiar with the matter (who) reported it, but the second source now says the (warning) message was only in the preparation (stage) and was not given to Giuliani, in part because of concerns it could complicate Giuliani’s criminal investigation.”
The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC did not immediately respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment. Giuliani’s office also has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Giuliani tweeted a statement Saturday (May 1) demanding that the New York Times and the Washington Post disclose the source of their misinformation.
In it, he wrote, “On Saturday, the Washington Post corrected their defamatory story about me, and the Washington Post and New York Times must disclose their sources who lied and targeted an American citizen. #msnbc #cnn forgot to mention today’s correction. #fakenews #badpeople.”
In a separate statement, Giuliani said, “Where did the initial disinformation come from? @MSNBC @CNN @nytimes I can’t quite hear your apology?”
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