CNN Adds Editor’s Note to ‘Exclusive’ Story That IG Report Debunked

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies about the Inspector General's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Dec. 11, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

CNN has added an editor’s note to a story that claimed former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was wiretapped both before and after the 2016 election after Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz debunked the claim.

Citing anonymous sources, reporters Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, and Pamela Brown wrote in September 2017 that Manafort was wiretapped “under secret court orders.”