NY Times Runs With Claire McCaskill Lie to Slander Jeff Sessions, Stealth Deletes It Without Correction

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Mar. 03, 2017

The New York Times ran with Claire McCaskill's false claim she never "met or called" any Russian ambassadors in "10 years" on the Armed Services Committee in order to slander Jeff Sessions as though he's Russian agent.

While the New York Times didn't bother to check her claims, a simple search of McCaskill's twitter shows she met and called a Russian ambassador at least twice.

Claire McCaskill says she’s had “no call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever.” But she tweeted about two. It’s easy to forget. pic.twitter.com/kavd29WOg5
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) March 2, 2017

The New York Times responded to this revelation by stealthy removing her comments from their article. They failed to issue any correction or retraction as The Federalist's Sean Davis noted on twitter:

NYT repeated as truth Claire McCaskill's lie that she never met or spoke to Russia's ambassador, then stealth deleted it w/o any note. pic.twitter.com/1adhWZdksE
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 2, 2017

Hi, @maggieNYT. Any reason NYT included McCaskill's false claim about Russia meetings only to stealth delete it w/o any correction note? pic.twitter.com/Xd3vQ35YOK
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 2, 2017

@seanmdav @maggieNYT Still no word from @maggieNYT on why she and NYT editors unattributed deletion @clairecmc's lie about not meeting with Russia. Zero ethics.
— Ali (@ali) March 2, 2017

@seanmdav @rosiebudpisces @maggieNYT The answer is obvious. The lie was retweeted enough to push the agenda, a retraction ruins it
— MDKramer (@MDKramer01) March 2, 2017

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