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Listen to This Article: Many Reporters Paid for Covering the Russiagate Story

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Matt Taibbi

Feb 24, 2024

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Media figures who exposed illegal surveillance, manufactured intelligence, and other abuses in the Trump-Russia investigation almost always paid a price

Narrated by Jared Moore

Art by Daniel Medina

Text published 02/15/24:

Many Reporters Paid for Covering the Russiagate Story

Matt Taibbi

Feb 16

Many Reporters Paid for Covering the Russiagate Story

Three years ago, on February 25th, 2021, Aaron Maté at RealClearInvestigations ran “In Final Days, Trump Gave Up on Forcing Release of Russiagate Files, Nunes Prober Says.” Extensively quoting former Principal Deputy to the Acting Director of National Intelligence Kash Patel, Aaron wrote a section on “Assessing the ‘Intelligence Community Assessment,’” detailing a lot of the same story Michael Shellenberger, Alexandra Gutentag and I ran in

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