“Do your job and print his name,” Paul declared alongside the president at a Kentucky rally on Monday night.
Media organizations rejected Senator Rand Paul’s demand Monday night that they identify the whistleblower who sparked the Ukraine scandal, with some saying the identity of the individual is no longer newsworthy in light of the growing accumulation of information about President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine.
“We published some identifying information about the whistleblower weeks ago to help our readers access the person’s credibility,” a New York Times spokesperson told POLITICO on Tuesday, referring to coverage in late September. “At this stage, with much of what the whistleblower had reported confirmed as fact, it’s not imperative to publish further detail.”
Margaret Talev, the politics and White House editor for Axios, said Tuesday on CNN that her news organization decided “we weren’t going to be in the business of attempting to out this person” and noted that “most major mainstream news organizations obviously feel the same way.”
CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota responded, “CNN does as well.”
“He’s trying to get us to do his dirty work,” Camerota said of Paul on CNN’s “New Day.” Her co-anchor, John Berman, called Paul “a small man” who acted “cowardly” on stage alongside President Donald Trump at a Lexington, Kentucky rally.
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Major news organizations have not identified the whistleblower whose claims about Trump pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens have been largely corroborated and even expanded upon by officials testifying in the impeachment inquiry — and they’re not buckling to demands from Trump and his allies to expose the individual.
Mark S. Zaid, an attorney for the whistleblower, told POLITICO that several news organizations have informed him that they believe they know the whistleblower’s identity — which the attorney doesn’t confirm or deny — but that the outlets are not publishing the name at this time.
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Media organizations rejected Rand Paul’s demand that they identify the whistleblower who sparked the Ukraine scandal, with some saying their identity is no longer newsworthy in light of more information about Trump’s actions toward Ukraine https://t.co/s0R8hlhrLN
— POLITICO (@politico) November 5, 2019
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, with Trump behind him and a roaring crowd of supporters in front, demanded the Ukraine call whistleblower's identity be revealed.
This comes after Trump made a veiled execution threat, suggesting "spies" should be handled like they were "in the old days" pic.twitter.com/PuPZXuVRTD
— POLITICO (@politico) November 5, 2019
1-6th Am has nothing to do with impeachment proceedings, which are not criminal trials.
2- Even where 6th Am applies, confrontation limited to witnesses prosecution actually calls at trial, not hearsay tipsters and other info sources that lead to trial witnesses/testimony. https://t.co/dhTrWYTZ5P
— Andy McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) November 6, 2019
So, the obvious reason this is dumb is that the 6th Amendment only applies at criminal trials. But also: it’s extremely common at criminal trials for the prosecution not to call witnesses whose testimony is not necessary as evidence. https://t.co/Le8xKmhmCO
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) November 5, 2019
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