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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The report is filled with facts supporting the allegation.
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No. It really isn't. You can tell, because the reporter has no personal knowledge that the person he has named is the whistleblower. You could have run the same report calling Fred Fielding Deep Throat, but he wasn't.
It's odd to me that you have such strong instincts to side with criminal defendants, a sense of the unfairnesss that's possible when the state machinery is used to prosecute someone, but you have no similar sense of siding with the little guy when the state uses its resources to smear someone. Whether or not he is the whistleblower, that guy does not deserve to become the target of right-wing media, and it's going to fuck with his life.
