Why are you so sure what I brought to the FBI was stuff he told me?
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Your opinion is, based on your words, driven by political and ideological differences with the Administration and the majority party in Congress. To betray a trust with that rationale is activism, not journalism.
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No. My opinion is based on my judgment--since confirmed AFAIK--that a person with whom I shared ideology was doing significant damage to the US. You find my actions treachery for trying to prevent that damage.
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You are ALSO affirmatively arguing that I and others should face physical and digital risks for trying to prevent damage to the United States.
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Nice attempts at a justification for violating core ethics, but the straw-man argument combined with a specious "two wrongs make a right" justification indicates that activism, not journalism, was the driving force here. I do appreciate that you think you did the right thing.
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And do you also appreciate that you're affirmatively defending the House GOP (not Senate ones, significantly) efforts that make me and others less safe?
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The do what journalists do: write about it. Not snitch a source, who trusted you, to the FBI because it furthers an activist narrative. That is where we disagree. I was federal LE for a time, and I appreciate sources, especially motivated ones. But a reporter?
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Yes. As I explained, that probably would have caused additional damage. So the choice was, let damage happen or go to FBI. Anyway, thanks for engaging. It's nice to meet a former Federal LE endorsing LE sources in a major counterintelligence investigation getting publicly outed.
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We have had a nice discussion - please don't sully it by falsely attributing motives or intentions. Outing a source in a claimed effort to protect other sources from Congressional oversight are two different things and really weakens your claim of additional damages.
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