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Re:Investor attempts to compel journalist to identify confid... by Causality1 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @07:22PM (#24814226)
If you properly disposed of records there'd be no way to tell you're lying about who it is. Especially if construed it in such a way as to open the possibility your source was impersonating someone else with access to the same information.
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Re:Investor attempts to compel journalist to identify confid... by paranoidrobot on Sunday October 18, 2020 @08:56PM (#24822456)
> there'd be no way to tell you're lying about who it is.

Lying to a court that you recall nothing about the person who contacted you with information about a public figure is something that I'll leave for you to discuss with your lawyer.

You might want to have them discuss with you the repercussions of getting caught. Something about perjury.

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