Re Mueller and Buzzfeed: This is vaguely familiar of "All the President's Men" when WAPO/W+B reported that Haldeman was involved with a secret CREEP's slush fund, on a source's (Sloan) saying he had no problem with the story. The next day, Sloan denied he oked the story and WAPO and the iinvestigative reporting was savaged.
As we know, because of that gaffe, the investigation soon ended, WAPO was disgraced, Ben Bradlee joined the priesthood, Woodward left journalism and taught English at Liberty University while Carl Bernstein after a 2-year sabbatical became director of Public Relations for Jews for Jesus. Nixon served out his 2nd term and won the 1973, '74, 75, and '76 Nobel Peace Prizes. Following his 2nd term he became Sr. professor of government at the Kennedy School in Cambridge, Ma.
I think I got it mostly right.