It was interesting to see Matt Taibbi liken this episode to the media failure on WMDs -- where again, the media bought into what the intelligence agencies had to say, based on what THEY wanted to do.
His piece
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD is remarkably footnoted (with links instead of footnotes)
Taibbi comes out looking good, as one of the lone reporters who was right about both items.