TLDR: A reporter got a tip from a source that Russia fired into Poland. The source had been vetted in the past, but not for this story specifically. The reporter asked what to do. A senior editor decided to publish without second checking the source. When this blew up in AP’s face, they fired the OG reporter, not the senior reporter who actually published it.
TLDR of TLDR: AP fires reporter to protect senior editor.
"I can't imagine a US intelligence official would be wrong on this."
That alone deserves firing.
And the senior reporter, and the intelligence official, and everyone who even touched this story. They knew damn well what they were doing - trying to start WWIII.
also they're only in trouble because US inteligence doesn't want a nuclear war with Russia
US inteligence doesn’t want a nuclear war with Russia
Some of them don't. Others like the source in this story have a crate of bottle caps they've been collecting since fallout 3 was released.
Yeah I mean what the actual fuck are they teaching in Journalism school? An investigative reporter should start with the baseline assumption that anyone at all with any vested interest in the story they are investigating is in some way hiding the truth either by lying or indirectly because they themselves are being lied to or are mistaken.
The wording is even worse. You don't think the source could be wrong? Who the fuck is your source on this? God? Anyone can be wrong for christ's sake. That's why people check stuff.
Who the fuck is your source on this?
A fucking INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
I know liberals out plenty of faith in their liberal institutions but come on
liberals and not understanding that triggering article 5 is in fact bad
The severe martyr complex of libs can be just as dangerous as the "some people just want to watch the world burn" cynicism of chuddy edgelords.
Lol, “don’t think the intelligence officer lying”. Truly a propaganda microphone. This and those puff piece on ftx and sbf. Hope this event radicalized peoples on credibility of this journalist when they bashing aes countries
Well I for one am happy that this reporter fell on his sword, because otherwise we'd have to hold the senior American intelligence official accountable and we cannot have that! Holding the government accountable for what they do would be unconscionable. Better to hold this farce among the self deluded rather than among the people who actually wield the levers of power.
