CNN: getting it wrong since 1980 add to their record

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence accuses the Communist News Network (CNN) on Thursday of publishing inaccurate information which can be construed as fake news.

The 'Hate Trump' network published a story that claimed United States "intelligence agencies started tracking coronavirus outbreak in China as early as November” and they shared the link on Twitter.

The DNI’s verified account shared the story with a caption informing followers that it got the facts wrong:

“As we told CNN earlier today, this story contains inaccurate information,” the Office of the DNI wrote in a tweet, but as of this post, the CNN tweet has been deleted.

The DNI did not detail what was inaccurate with CNN’s report, but came one day after a defense official issued a rare denial of a similar report by ABC News. [H/T Fox News]

CNN did not comment after a request by Fox News.

ABC News reported on Wednesday that a November intelligence assessment warned about a rapidly spreading coronavirus in China that posed a threat to American forces in the region – but the DNI official said no such assessment existed.

ABC News cited anonymous officials with knowledge of the assessment by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) that raised concerns of the Chinese Communist Wuhan Wet Market Lab Created Coronavirus and highlighted how it was disrupting daily life as well as business in the area.

Col. R. Shane Day, the director of the NCMI, a component of the Defense Intelligence Agency, refuted the ABC News report in a statement:

"As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters. However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists."

The CNN report disputed by the Office of the DNI cited “a former US military official” who claimed, “US spy agencies were tracking the rise of the novel coronavirus as early as November, weeks before that information was included in President Donald Trump's daily intelligence briefing.”

CNN’s report mentioned the Pentagon denying ABC News’ similar report and noted that "Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Hyten seemed to push back on reports that the US intelligence community was aware of the coronavirus in November."

CNN had not fixed its fake news story following the Office of the DNI’s tweet as of this Friday afternoon.

CNN, screwing it up since 1980.



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