Last November the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran an investigative story that exposed Bill Browder's yarn about the demise of his "lawyer," Sergei Magnitsky, as, well, a yarn. Browder did the predictable huffing and puffing and filed a complaint with the German Press Council.
The Press Council eventually tossed Browder's complaint, citing the many contradictions in and the essentially unverifiable nature of much of the narrative that Browder has promoted over the years. In other words... liar liar pants on fire. I thought the fallout from this episode would blow a sufficiently large hole in Browder's credibility that his career as a Russia expert and Putin critic would be over.
I was wrong. I nearly fell off my chair this morning when Browder showed up on CBC's Day Six as, you guessed it, world renowned Russia expert, Putin critic, and human rights activist!
This doesn't do anything to enhance the credibility of the CBC.
Shame!
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