I treat Republican and Democrat presidents differently. Because on the whole, Democrats are worse than Republicans (on principles, not necessarily deeds).

Not sure how this is anti libertarian. It's been 3 years of 'anonymous sources said this' and it turned out to be largely biased political leaking. Wanting to know who the leaker is to examine his motives makes sense for people interested in the truth.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Nov 8 2019 11:58am

I don't think RP is jumping on the Trump train or anything, but I DO think he's getting fed up with the Dems BS. I think he's doing the same as he always does... doing what he thinks is right.

That would make sense if he was the only source...turns out, he's just someone who got the ball rolling and he really doesn't matter anymore.

If that's the case, from a legal point of view his information should be disregarded then no?

Shitty precedent to set where people can accuse someone of something and not have to be cross-examined.

He can be cross-examined without being publicly outed.

FFS, Rand Paul has been honored by civil rights groups for his previous work in protecting whistleblowers.

https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/whistleblower-summit-for-civil-and-human-rights-returns-to-capitol-hill-2013-07-29

It will be disregarded. The Democrats don't have to rely on any of the whistle blower's accusations.

Rand is supposedly trying to out someone's name.. who was already outed in the released impeachment inquiry testimony? how does that work

Why use second hand information when you can use first hand information? All the people questioned are DIRECTLY involved.

His testimony wouldn't be admissible in a court, it's hearsay. However, the level of scrutiny given to people reporting potential wrongdoing is much lower than the level of scrutiny given to somebody making a claim to prove the point in question, as it should be. To have it otherwise would basically require police to ignore somebody coming in saying "John admitted to me in confidence that he was the one who murdered Adam last week".