CNN walking back another story. Jeff Sessions-Russia Bombshell

Maybe, to save time, CNN should just issue a warning at the top of every hour: “Everything we say is pure fiction invented with the intention of hurting conservatives and helping Democrats. We are not journalists, we don’t hire journalists, we don’t pretend to be journalists, we are simply asses who get to be on TV.”


[link to dailycaller.com]



CNN has quietly walked back more of their “bombshell” reporting on the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, and this time it’s a story relating to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ security clearance forms.

In May, CNN reported [link to www.cnn.com] that Sessions had failed to disclose meetings he had with the Russian ambassador when he was a senator. Justice Department officials told CNN that Sessions had not listed those meetings on a security clearance form, even though the form says to list “any contact” with the “foreign government” or its “representatives” in the past seven years.

CNN framed the non-disclosures as more evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump team, writing, “He has come under withering criticism from Democrats following revelations that he did not disclose the same contacts with Kislyak during his Senate confirmation hearings earlier this year.”

At the time, Sessions said he was told by the FBI not to list meetings “connected with his Senate activities,” but CNN’s legal expert denied those claims.

“A legal expert who regularly assists officials in filling out the form disagrees with