CNN, Hillary, the DNC and the entire band of usual suspects loved that fact. And how could anyone with any sense argue the fact? CNN laughed off Trump supporters who disputed the fact.
Uncovering a politician telling a lie is no great feat. So if the esteemed seventeen agencies were actually just the big three, so what. I mean, this was just an exaggeration and not an earth-shattering lie. Anyway, it wasn’t like Trump said it, so no biggie.
But how is it that not one reporter investigating this all-important Russia story noticed that fourteen of the seventeen agencies that concluded their investigation had absolutely zero information, comments or statements on the subject. The claim could have been dis-proven by asking one question of the hundreds (or thousands) of people at the fourteen “other” agencies. You would think there’d be a question, maybe even two for those agencies, especially considering how often this fact was quoted on CNN and MSNBC.