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> He snagged a Pulitzer for a story about something that never had any primary source, that was entirely fabricated by political operatives then working for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

There was a multi-year government report indicating that "the Russian government 'interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion' and 'violated U.S. criminal law'."

Source and further reading if desired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Russian_interfe...

The Justice Department under former Attorney General Bill Barr tried to determine who had leaked to the reporter, Devlin Barrett, because the information he published was accurate and classified: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/washington-...