I'm confused what you're saying here it was Wall Street Journal not WaPo...

I mean WSJ is owned by Murdoch so I'm not saying it's good, but this is fine reporting and if you're not able to read it and determine that for yourself regardless of the publisher that's kind of sad. All of the reporting in this story comes from public court filings (in which it is a crime to lie), and interviews with the people making the suits (in which case it's not a crime to lie, but it would really hurt your lawsuit and would be stupid).

You should judge reporting not by the publisher but by the actual sourcing in the article. The sourcing here is clearly and obviously good. WaPo/NYT is bad about this stuff with their Russiagate coverage because it's always "sources in the intelligence community who wish to remain anonymous," and then it gets turned into fact based on WaPo/NYT's reputation. Not clear if that's bad journalism because you cant get these IC guys to go on record because it's illegal, but it's certainly bad media coverage of the WaPo/NYT reporting because no one (i.e. no one in mainstream media) has enough skepticism. This is how we got into the Iraq war over false WMDs, let's hope its not how we get into WW3.