NBC News issued a correction Thursday afternoon backtracking on an earlier report that claimed federal officials wiretapped the phones of President Donald Trump’s lawyer…
NBC News issued a correction Thursday afternoon backtracking on an earlier report that claimed federal officials wiretapped the phones of President Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen.
In a lengthy editor’s note at the start of the article, now titled « Fed monitored Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s phones, » NBC News explained the error.
« The calls are logged by a machine called a pen register, » the article reads, explaining a pen register records the numbers of the phone that makes the call and the phone that receives it without recording the conversation.
The original report, titled « Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s phones, » was widely covered throughout the day, with media outlets like MSNBC often discussing the ways the ultimately-errant revelation could impact the Trump administration.
