Bev Harris burned her source

[Kelvin Mace]

I just caught this news story about Stephen Heller, the fellow facing felony charges for revealing that Diebold broke the law in California.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/18/state/n073150S99.DTL

This graf leaps right off the screen:

Bev Harris, founder of Black Box Voting, told investigators that Heller met her in a Ventura County park in early 2004 and gave her the documents. She turned them over to the secretary of state and the Oakland Tribune.

Why in God's name did she reveal the source of the documents? This is a women who styles herself as an "investigative journalist", yet she burns the source of critical information about "her" story.

She TOLD the investigators who her gave the documents and now he is facing jail. And yes, she is supposedly donating $10,000 to his defense (though I require more evidence than Bev's word), but this does not change the fact that she screwed this guy by revealing his name.

This is just unforgivable.

I await the people who have lectured me about how Bev "has done so much for this movement" to explain to me how allowing a confidential source to be charged with three felonies will encourage other people to trust her or the movement.