Breaking the cardinal rule of journalism is the key factor here. Anyone who trusts reporters, or bloggers, or activists pretending to be journalists, to hold confidences are fools when it can be broken cavalierly because of a difference in ideology or politics.
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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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Sorry. You've spent this entire thread misrepresenting my motives. I'm not talking your motives. I'm talking your action, you labeling my criticism of House GOP making sources less safe as mere ideology.
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Informing on a source to make other sources potentially safer...okay.
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That, plus limiting ongoing serious damage and protecting my readers and preventing tampering with my site and a bunch of other things. Yes. Why do you keep ignoring the ongoing damage?
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