CNN fails Googling

So apparently, CNN was unaware that a retired Brigadier General who came out as a homosexual after his career was over, and was flown to St. Petersburg, FL for tonight's YouTube debate to ask a question of the Republican candidates was a member of a Hillary Clinton steering committee.

Emailers and bloggers picked this up in less than an hour and Anderson Cooper offered somewhat of a half-assed admission of this one hour after the debate.

Is it any wonder that CNN is rapidly losing credibility as an unbiased news source? If they couldn't Google the questioners names before allowing these questions to be selected and use, doesn't it make you question whether or not CNN is doing adequate story and fact-checking research in other areas?