Anonymous soureces are kind of weak
Point of information: the guy who made the original allegation against Massa
isn't anonymous:
- The allegation was made by Massa's former legislative director, Ronald S. Hikel, a military veteran and friend of Massa's who was hired last year as the congressman's expert on health care issues.
Hikel's last day at work was Feb. 26.
Now, does that make the charges true? Of course not. But it does tend to give them more weight than if they were, in fact, anonymous.
And, to be fair to you, I doubt you knew that the complainant had been identified. As near as I can tell, that's part of the local media coverage right now (Massa's district borders the one I'm in) and hasn't gotten much play in the national news yet.
