LA Times Spokesman: Releasing The Khalidi/Obama Tape Might Put Source In Jeopardy
From an email respone sent to a Little Green Footballs reader from LA Times spokesman Gary Weitman:
I completely agree about the role of the press being a watchdog on government abuse. The LA Times, as you know, brought this story to light in the first place and described what was going on on the tape. The reporter on the story has written extensively about Barack Obama’s relationship to the Khalidi family. The reporter agreed with his source not to release the tape in return for getting acess to it.
The Times has made it clear (last night online and in today’s newspaper) that it will honor that agreement. That is what you’d want, I would think: protection of a source in return for getting the underlying information. To break that agreement might put the source of the tape in jeopardy. Honoring the agreement allows the newspaper to continue to get information from other sources and assures those sources of information that they can come forward confidentially.
Sounds like a) a tacit admission that this tape is very damaging for Obama and b) a commentary on the thuggishness of the Obamanation.
