Times subscribers are up in arms because they published the news that the whistleblower is a CIA agent detailed to White House, with knowledge of Ukraine’s situation.
We took their concerns to Dean Baquet, The Times’s executive editor, who responded to them in a discussion with the Reader Center:
The president and some of his supporters have attacked the credibility of the whistle-blower, who has presented information that has touched off a landmark impeachment proceeding. The president himself has called the whistle-blower’s account a “political hack job.”
We decided to publish limited information about the whistle-blower — including the fact that he works for a nonpolitical agency and that his complaint is based on an intimate knowledge and understanding of the White House — because we wanted to provide information to readers that allows them to make their own judgments about whether or not he is credible.
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I tore ‘em a new one. If you’re a subscriber, feel free:)
Or we can all vent here!
I will never forgive the endless EMAIL stories; the refusal to treat HRC with seriousness (except for Her Emails;) the lack of information about Trump, which might have changed minds in the battlegrounds, had people but known what a bad person he is, etc.
Now, the dangerous and vindictive Trump knows a great deal about the whistleblower whose life he has all but threatened. He has already ruined the lives of so many people who worked on the Russia investigation.
NYT was irresponsible. And we readers can make up our own damn minds about the whistleblower’s credibility, which was confirmed by Mcguire in any case.