
NYT Hasn’t Confirmed WaPo’s Latest Jeff Sessions Russia Story
The Washington Post made waves Friday night when it published a story headlined, “Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Russian ambassador, U.S. intelligence intercepts show.”
The report was based on intercepted conversations between Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak and “his superiors in Moscow.” These intercepts, which The Post has not seen, corroborated, or independently verified, allegedly suggest that Attorney General Jeff Sessions “discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow” with the Russian ambassador. Specifically,
A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had “substantive” discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.
The interesting thing about these allegations, however, is that neither The New York Times have reported on these revelations at all. Neither publication has even reported on The Post’s reporting (which usually entails a headline mimicking the original headline followed by “: Report”).
By comparison, when The Post reported that the FBI had obtained a FISA warrant to wiretap the communications of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, The Times had independently confirmed The Post’s account by the next day, and posted a story of its own.
Now we are two days out from publication of The Post’s original story. So the fact that The Times has not, by now, published a similar story (potentially) speaks volumes about the veracity of The Post’s story.

