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The news outlets said their reporters did nothing wrong but that they agreed to pay a settlement so they wouldn’t have to disclose the names of the government sources who’d leaked Lee’s name. The big takeaway for me was the realization that our own government could be guilty of fingering a fake suspect and generating a fake story about him—and get
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They raise rational-sounding objections to the story, though one-sided and often entirely false. They take verbal off-the-record swipes at the journalists pursuing the story, whispering disparaging side comments to chip away at the reporter’s reputation in the eyes of his colleagues.