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          1. It occurred to me that one of the dishonest things about @marcthiessen’s column that I pointed out yesterday was actually even more egregious and is another affirmative factual error (a charitable word choice) that the WP should correct./15 @charlie_savage/1659277865068687366
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          When he backed his criticism of the FBI's decision to open a full investigation by misleadingly citing a passage about warrant renewal applications, Thiessen inserted "[the Trump campaign]” into a quote from the report. In context, "the target" instead meant Carter Page./16
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        Ironically, this comes in the same graph that falsely says the FBI presented a doctored email to the FISA court as evidence. That's wrong–it was not shown to the court–but Thiessen himself demonstrably presented a falsely doctored Durham report quote to WP readers as evidence./17
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      Indeed, Thiessen's quotation of the report's words "both then and in hindsight" to characterize the FBI's decision to open a full inquiry in July 2016 is also dishonest because in context, "then" was 2017, when the FBI renewed the Page FISA warrants after talking to Danchenko./18
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    I have submitted a formal corrections request about all these matters to corrections@washpost.com. Let's see what happens. /19
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      Update: Late last night the WP corrected some of the false statements in Thiessen's column and appended this lengthy note. Kudos to the Thiessen or his editors for partially cleaning up the mess, but this left at least one clear error unaddressed and created a new problem./20
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        Thiessen's updated column still inaccurately says an official falsified evidence presented to a court. The email was not shown to a court. Its effect was the FBI did not add an omitted fact to an affidavit; incomplete evidence is bad but not false. WP should correct the error./21
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          Thiessen has also slipped the word "later" into the sentence where he used a quote from the report about the FBI's understanding of Page in April/June 2017 to (mis)characterize its decision to open a full investigation in July 2016. But this didn't solve the problem. /22
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            Aside from whether this should be disclosed in the list, the quote "both then and in hindsight" still misleads. The FBI acknowledged problems w/ the 2017 renewals "later" (2020) but "in hindsight" still falsely reads like it pertains to the 2016 opening when it means 2017./23
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