...Mueller's Office Calls Out New York Times for Incorrect Story About Picking Manafort's Lock
Source: Law & Crime
Its Not Responsible: Muellers Office Calls Out New York Times for Incorrect Story About Picking Manaforts Lock
by Matt Naham | 12:49 pm, June 21st, 2018
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his office just wanted to set the record straight about how former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort came to be arrested by the FBI. Articles from the New York Times and the Washington Post were both cited in a footnote of a filing as examples of not responsible reporting, particularly on the claim that authorities picked Manaforts lock.
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Mueller and his prosecutors took issue with reported details that FBI agents conducted a no-knock raid and picked the lock of Manaforts front door. In the footnote, they quote the court: But, I do question the publication of the completely unsupported speculation that this revelation was an intentional leak by the Office of the Special Counsel. No reporter had any facts to base that on, so Im not sure why anyone printed it. Its not responsible. In other words, the leak about this didnt come from the special counsels office and it didnt happen.
Mueller, et al. pointed to two links to say there was incorrect reporting that federal agents who executed search warrant a Manaforts residence did not knock on the front door and picked the lock to enter.
The opening line of the Times article headlined, With a Picked Lock and a Threatened Indictment, Muellers Inquiry Sets a Tone says Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/its-not-responsible-muellers-office-calls-out-new-york-times-for-incorrect-story-about-picking-manaforts-lock/
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,312 posts)need to be very careful. Because we have an entire political party trying to discredit their entire profession, they will pounce on any error one of them makes and try to hang it on all of them.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)He's cited in the article all the way at the end.