Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein cautioned that it will take some time to fully know the truth about the explosive BuzzFeed report about President Donald Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony. But, Bernstein noted: “I think you also need to look at what the pattern has been” in the Russia story. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office issued a rare statement Friday saying that BuzzFeed’s “description of specific statements” and the “characterization” of documents and testimony obtained by Mueller were “not accurate. They reported in the Washington Post that then-president Richard Nixon’s chief of staff directed the payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Watergate burglars. They cited grand jury testimony that in fact did not exist, which the Nixon administration used to slam all of the Post’s Watergate coverage.

Source: Huffington Post January 21, 2019 06:45 UTC