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BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony are not accurate. -- Office of the Special Counsel. If this is the first story the special counsel has felt compelled to dispute, does that mean he had no objection to all the others that have come out before now? -- Peter Baker, New York Times. These things cannot both be true:The Mueller investigation is a witch hunt fomented by a Mueller-Comey-Strzok cabal of Trump haters. The statement from the Office of the Special Counsel calling BuzzFeed's "description of specific statements to the special counsel's office" "not accurate" definitively refutes the two-year long fake news crusade
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BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony are not accurate. -- Office of the Special Counsel. If this is the first story the special counsel has felt compelled to dispute, does that mean he had no objection to all the others that have come out before now? -- Peter Baker, New York Times. These things cannot both be true:The Mueller investigation is a witch hunt fomented by a Mueller-Comey-Strzok cabal of Trump haters. The statement from the Office of the Special Counsel calling BuzzFeed's "description of specific statements to the special counsel's office" "not accurate" definitively refutes the two-year long fake news crusade
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BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony are not accurate. -- Office of the Special Counsel.
If this is the first story the special counsel has felt compelled to dispute, does that mean he had no objection to all the others that have come out before now? -- Peter Baker, New York Times.These things cannot both be true:
- The Mueller investigation is a witch hunt fomented by a Mueller-Comey-Strzok cabal of Trump haters.
- The statement from the Office of the Special Counsel calling BuzzFeed's "description of specific statements to the special counsel's office" "not accurate" definitively refutes the two-year long fake news crusade against Trump by the media.
Parsing the special counsel's statement, it seems to refer to the "description of specific statements to the special counsel's office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office." Period. Note the repetition of the word "office." The evidence may or may not exist. The office of the special counsel may or may not be in possession of it. They do not confirm or deny that they are not confirming or denying.
But "BuzzFeed's description" is "not accurate." Where does the crucial word "office" appear in the BuzzFeed description?
The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.
"The special counsel's office learned..." It is not accurate to say that the office learned (through interviews, etc.). This "inaccuracy" could mean simply that the office of the special counsel has not yet determined that Trump directed Cohen to lie.