Those words tease the idea that CNN is now administering a dossier reckoning to CNN itself. Nothing close to that comes to fruition. Cohen explains CNN’s role in breaking the news that then-President Barack Obama and Donald Trump were briefed on the dossier during the presidential transition, as well as the network’s February 2017 story that U.S. officials had corroborated certain communications outlined in the document. The piece does point out that a December 2019 Justice Department inspector general report noted that the FBI had corroborated precious little of the dossier’s exclusive material.

Source: CNN November 23, 2021 20:26 UTC