The Washington Post on Friday corrected two articles and altered a dozen others in an attempt to respond to discrepancies that had emerged between its reporting and what was known about the dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele. The Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, had long insisted that Sergei Millian, a Belrusian-American businessman, was one of Steele’s sources. But its stories relied on two sources it did not name publicly. The reporting was increasingly undermined by information in the public sphere, most recently a grand jury indictment against Igor Danchenko, who has been described as Steele’s “primary sub-source.” Danchenko is accused of falsely telling FBI agents on four separate occasions that he spoke with Millian over the phone. But authorities discovered he had never spoken to Millian. The indictment and “further reporting” drove the Post to correct two pieces—one originally published in 2017 and another in 2019, …
‘Long Overdue:’ Washington Post Corrects Articles About Steele Dossier
November 12, 2021
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