Will The NYT Retract?
Let’s start with a hat tip for Daniel who reminded us of this one. We just went through the HPSCI report on the ICA and found there was no significant sourcing to the idea that Putin ordered an interference campaign to help Trump.
In 2019, the NYT reported about the exfiltration of an alleged spy we had placed in the Kremlin, describing him in this manner:
The article continues on to tell us about Brennan’s role:
So how does this spy fit into the ICA? This appears to be one of the sources mentioned in today’s HPSCI ICA report (he has to be in there somewhere), personally managed by Brennan.
If there was a good source providing intelligence that Putin ordered this campaign and favored Trump, it wasn’t included in the ICA materials reviewed by HPSCI. The New York Times was fed bad information and as we’ve seen too often, influenced an incorrect narrative.
People seem to be overlooking the fact that the so-called "bipartisan" senate intelligence report was in part produced by New Knowledge, a private company funded by Dem billionaire Reid Hoffman, who also funded the fake Hamilton 68 Russian bots dashboard and who himself was busted by the NYT and Wapo for running a Russian disinfo false flag on behalf of Alabama Dem senator Doug Jones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonder_(company)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/us/reid-hoffman-alabama-election-disinformation.html
I would tend to agree with this review argumentation 👇
July 23, 2025
The Ratcliffe-led CIA in its review found that the “aspire” judgment was “plausible and sensible, but was an inference rather than fact sourced to multiple reporting streams,” noting that it also rested on an assessment of “the public behavior of senior Russian officials and state- controlled media, and on logic.” It said that the assessment authors had properly interpreted the sentence fragment.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/23/politics/gabbard-russia-documents