Remember this day when the Guardian permitted a serial fabricator to totally destroy the paper’s reputation. @WikiLeaks is willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor’s head that Manafort never met Assange.
Well, then, name this despised “serial fabricator” and collect your bet. Unless, of course, the Grauniad’s other sources turn out not to be serial fabricators as well. From the article:
Manafort’s first visit to the embassy took place a year after Assange sought asylum inside, two sources said.
A separate internal document written by Ecuador’s Senain intelligence agency and seen by the Guardian lists “Paul Manaford [sic]” as one of several well-known guests. It also mentions “Russians”.
This is one of the reasons why the Guardian still has its brand goodwill after more than a century where Wikileaks exhausted its own in a matter of years.
