[dead]

I'm all for exposing corrupt politicians, but I can see the need for a little more verification than your name on some whore's rolodex. She could have copied names from the phone book, or sold real estate in her rolodex to anybody with a grudge or an agenda.

If she's got cancelled checks, now we're talking!

[rwfromkansas]

I agree. If I were working for a newspaper, even if there were tons of juicy names, I would work on trying to legitimize the list first before “outing” anybody.

At the same time, being the net, we have a passion for all these types of documents just being posted online without verification.

Post it online. We will see it, and somebody will be able to track down the legitimacy of the list.

[furquhart]

In this case, I think the media’s actually exercising some common sense. Lawyers will tend to force that onto people.

All the profits in the world than can be reaped from this will be worthless if one person successfully manages to sue them in return.

My best guess is that the list will be passed to some particularly nasty Democrat blogger - perhaps John Avirsos or whatever that queer’s name is, so that the media can, in turn, simply report on his allegations.