MSNBC political analyst and former Obama administration official Richard Stengel argued that America needs to outlaw hateful speech, including Koran burning. 
The Washington Post expressed regret Sunday after running a headline that described ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as a "religious scholar." 
This week on the Sunday news shows: CNN host Brian Stelter attacks White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham by saying she acts like a "propaganda minister," 
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler gave Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) four Pinocchios for falsely claiming the House Intelligence Committee had not heard from the Ukraine whistleblower. 
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received the lowest possible grade from fact-checker PolitiFact for repeating a claim that fact-checkers had already heavily criticized. 
The New York Times recycled analysis of the Trump administration's claims of Iranian bellicosity, publishing two pieces just months apart raising questions about whether President Donald Trump's accusations against the Khamenei regime could be trusted given his tendency to stretch the truth. 
CNN chief national security correspondent and former Obama diplomatic staffer Jim Sciutto had a major scoop Monday, reporting that "in a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government." 
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is pushing back against criticism of his inaccurate portrayal of multiple war stories, saying the details are "irrelevant" to policy decisions. 
A minor Twitter fight broke out in January after U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell tweeted that the Trump administration was the toughest ever when it came to taking on Russia. 
