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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.
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Could be wrong, but round the beltway, that name is the WB.
The state isn't doing anything to this guy. Trump and his political party are doing it. It is unfair. But it's also unavoidable. There was no way in hell that once Schiff decided to use this complaint to seek impeachment, this poor guy's name wasn't coming out.
What I'd like to know is when Schiff and the WB first connected. If the WB did this out of a sense of duty and Schiff later ran with it, that's one thing. If Schiff was in any way involved in drafting the WB's complaint, we're in more of a
caveat emptor, or "buy the ticket, take the ride" situation.
