re: #92 Honorary Yooper

I’m not so sure she can’t win this. The accusation is that she is under federal investigation, therefore she resigned. That should be easy enough to prove or disprove. If she’s not under investigation, then Ms. Moore is in the wrong, and deserves what she gets. It is libel if that is the case. Granted, libel in the US is tough to prove (compared to Britian), but it has been done.

Actually, no, that isn’t what needs to be proven. What needs to happen is to show that when Moore published the article, she did so knowing it was false. This is a much more difficult hurdle to clear. Moore has literally scores of websites she can draw upon to show that the story was already circulating; some elements of it - of an ongoing Federal investigation, for example - have been out there for months. Passing that information along isn’t a crime. Knowingly publishing a malicious lie might be, but is much, much more difficult to prove.