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Created: 2025-07-22 16:49:29 UTC

Washington Post & New York Times ran fake stories on December 9, 2016 that concluded that an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) had high confidence that Russia intervened to help Trump win the election. "

The Post cited an unnamed US official as saying that this was the "consensus view." 

Yet when the stories were posted, the intelligence community had not had its meeting yet to provide that "consensus view." The President's Daily Brief had been spiked the day before. 

The Post writers were: Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, and Greg Miller.

The NYT writers were: Mark Mazzetti, Eric Lichtblau, Michael S. Schmidt, and David E. Sanger. 





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