WhistlinDave
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Happens all of the time. It is illegal in Britain but not illegal here. We have freedom of speech. Beck seems to be the source of the claim that Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi was going to be deported in the first place (no sources given and no confirmation found).
Freedom of speech has its limits. Journalists do have a duty to perform a reasonable amount of due diligence to verify facts before publishing them.
The House Committee on Homeland Security on Sunday emailed TheBlaze a copy of their request to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for more information on the Saudi national originally described as a “person of interest” in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Very first thing on the page. So if that document is phony, and he is saying it was e-mailed to him by someone from the House Committee on Homeland Security, freedom of speech is not going to protect him from allegations of defamation. Especially considering the nature of what he is implying with all of this.
The only other possibility would be that this is all deliberate disinformation, but that requires conspiracy theorist thinking as well to make that leap. It's quite a bit more fantastical to think that, than to think that this document is legit. Don't you think?