by Jim » Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:55 pm
S: No, that is not the case. They have not disclosed any sources but they have verified all of them. They have clearly stated that the information they published was verified before it ever was published. It is an op-ed piece, not a news story, so all the Times has to do is verify who wrote the story, and have them sign all the legal paperwork before publishing it. The credibility belongs to the authors, though the newspaper that published it is standing behind the fact that those words are the author's words.
I've watched several Woodward interviews, and about the only person in the White House he didn't talk to directly was the orange hair himself. Of course, the sources in something like this will be anonymous. We'd never have found out what a crook Nixon was without them. Free speech is a guaranteed right, and the courts have decided, from a long time back, that responsibility and anonymity are equally balancing elements without which speech is not free. If your words are true, and that can be verified, you can speak anonymously and be protected from retaliation, especially when the retaliation comes from a crooked snake in the grass criminal operative like the orange haired president. You, of all people, shouldn't have a problem with "verified anonymous sources," since that is a trademark of the extremist right wing media. Woodward is probably one of the best at getting to the truth without compromising someone's identity and protecting them from retaliation.
I can see why this might be a confusing issue for Jim. He seems to have ignored the fact that once the book "Unfit for Command" was written, all kinds of facts and evidence came forward to prove that the author, Jerome Corsi, really had only one anonymous source. Kerry never bothered with who that might be because the book was so full of provable lies, and because so many of those who served with him came forward to provide personal testimony of his character and service, that it made the "anonymous source" superfluous. And that author, Jerome Corsi, is a discredited hack who has to hang around and wordsmith for nut case extremist right wingers. He's virtually not even on the same literary planet as a powerhouse like Woodward. You don't like Woodward because he writes the truth about orange hair, and it makes him look bad. But that's not Woodward's fault. He just dug up the truth and put it out there for people to see.
Jim: If you actually believe that wordy swamp, you are to be pitied. Take some aspirin and a nap. Until there's proof for any of the NYT or Woodward slime, it remains an obvious attempt to accomplish some political objective. As for Kerry, winning three or four Purple Hearts involving just a half-day of lost duty was a little much, especially since at least one of his horrible wounds was accidentally self-inflicted. But they got him sent home after four months so he could throw his medals “over the wall.” His goose was cooked that memorable day in California when he said the guys too dumb to make it in school went to the Middle East. Stick with the “progressives” but be glad Hillary lost since she promised us 500,000 Syrian Muslims.