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UTUSN

(70,674 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 10:26 PM Mar 2017

Rachel makes me nervous. Is she outing sources.

The other night she flashed a document that was leaked to her, fine. She put the headers of official docs to prove they were real on the screen, fine. But anything can be tracked back, like, who had access to the leaked docs etc.

Tonight she's doing another thing, the premise of lauding whistleblowers, but is she leaving so many clues that she's jeopardizing her sources?

Couldn't she do the stories without focusing on the sources and how authentic they are?

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Dem2

(8,168 posts)
5. I mean ALL of us
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 10:37 PM
Mar 2017

If anything, deliberately leading our opponents to think certain things. I really think she's that forward thinking in what she lets her audience see.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
3. I haven't seen where she is giving anything away. The whistleblower could be anyone from
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 10:30 PM
Mar 2017

the janitor to the lady who cleans the dust off the computers. They would be hard put to figure out who it is. Look how long deep throat stayed hidden as to who it was..until he died from old age.

radical noodle

(8,000 posts)
8. I feel sure they gave her permission to do that
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 10:49 PM
Mar 2017

I hope you're watching the piece coming up about Trump and the fertilizer king.

UTUSN

(70,674 posts)
9. Saw parts. Am random across venues. My problem is not needing convincing.
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 10:52 PM
Mar 2017

It's: Why can't the mass of known evidence convince everybody else?

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
10. everything she said tonight about the Flynn/FISA warrant Kurt Eichenwald reported
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 11:00 PM
Mar 2017

about a week ago. And he did it with more detail.

WiffenPoof

(2,404 posts)
14. She's More than Pretty Bright...
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 11:35 PM
Mar 2017

There is a video of her giving her valedictorian speech at her high school at the ripe old age of 17. The creativity and daring insight was amazing.

Here is the video...

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