Surprise Surprise: CNN Has Ties To Fusion GPS
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There’s your colluuuuuuuuuuusion, Dems.
I remember when news of the unverified dossier first broke. BuzzFeed and CNN were all over it. Speaking of CNN…
It has ties to Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the garbage dossier.
CNN’s reporting on the dossier, led by justice correspondent Evan Perez, has been favorable to the firm, Fusion GPS, and hyped the dossier’s credibility. Left out of Perez’s reporting, which has relied largely on unnamed sources, is his personal closeness to Fusion GPS’ operatives. Fusion has repeatedly been described in Senate testimonies as a smear-for-hire operation that manufactures misleading or false media narratives for its clients.
How incredibly interesting that the network failed to disclose that information!
Glenn Simpson, the Fusion co-founder most often associated with the dossier, is used to working on stories with Perez. As reporters at The Wall Street Journal, Perez and Simpson regularly co-authored stories on national security.
I repeat, the reporter who led CNN’s reporting of the dossier previously CO-AUTHORED STORIES with Fusion GPS’ co-founder. And that’s not all. A bunch of other Fusion co-founders worked for The WSJ around the same time as Perez.
Another Fusion founder, Tom Catan, worked as a reporter for the Journal at the same time as Perez and Simpson. The third Fusion co-founder, Peter Fritsch, worked above Perez and Simpson as the senior national security editor.
Simpson and Fritsch left the WSJ in 2011 to launch Fusion. Perez jumped from the paper to CNN in 2013. Another longtime Journal reporter, Neil King, left the paper to join Fusion in December 2016.
Photos posted to Facebook underscore the personal closeness between Perez and the Fusion GPS operatives. One photo posted by Perez shows King, who left the Journal for Fusion in December 2016, and another man posing for a picture at The Bullpen, an outdoor bar right outside of the Washington Nationals’ stadium.
You can see the pictures (and there are a lot of them) here.
You’d think at some point, Perez would let everyone know about his ties to the organization. I mean, that’s what an honorable, transparent reporter would do.
CNN’s reporting on the dossier has similarly muddied the waters with incorrect information on multiple other occasions.
CNN did not respond to The Daily Caller’s request for comment about Perez’s ties to Fusion’s partners.
Fusion GPS, currently at the center of the Russia investigation, has a reputation for working misinformation into the media for political clients.
Imagine that. Fusion GPS passes on misinformation to news outlets, which HAPPILY spread it to the masses.
And that, my friends, is how ignorant sheep are made.
h/t The Daily Caller
