Using Technology to Protect Anonymous Sources?

A not-so Anonymous Anonymous Coward asks: "The New York Times has a story describing how newspapers are looking for new ways to hide the identities of anonymous sources from prosecutors. This seems like a something the Slashdot crowd might know something about. How can a newspaper setup an IT system that completely hides every trace (including emails, phone calls notes, logs and so forth) of an anonymous source's identity?"

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[pcidevel]

Here's the exact quote from Joe Wilson:

WILSON: My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.

Therefore, this is not a total fabrication, it's a failure on your part to accept the truth.

EXACTLY, Now.. turn off your partisan blinders and read what he said (and later clarified several times):

WILSON: My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.

Again, Wilson has clarified this statement MANY times.. he is saying, that after Novak's story went to print that she was no longer a clandestine agent. Now, given the quote you presented, you could make the case that he was commenting on her status before the article, so we are at an apparent stalemate..

Except you completely left off the next question:

BLITZER: But she hadn't been a clandestine officer for some time before that?

WILSON: That's not anything that I can talk about.

What's that? LOOKY THERE!! HE DID NOT COMMENT ON HER STATUS BEFORE NOVAK'S ARTICLE WAS RELEASED. Ohh, isn't that too bad? You're a total fucking liar..