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Him not naming names means that people will continue to give him information in the future. He'd be shooting himself in the foot by naming a source that request
by mattmaroon 16y ago
Him not naming names means that people will continue to give him information in the future. He'd be shooting himself in the foot by naming a source that requested anonymity.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoThere's an interesting conundrum there too. He can't name names without either omitting (and hence identifying) his source/s, or including (and inditing) them. Either way he loses that/those source/s for future stories. He did the only thing he could do, besides staying silent. If it happened to be the right thing as well, so much the better.