E-Mailbag: Leave The Clerk Alone?
(AP)
I am writing to protest your news staff trying to get the identity of the person responsible for alerting the FBI of the video tape of the accused men. I feel you are putting this person in danger, and every time I see when of your newspersons standing in front of the Circuit City store, I get upset. It is not important that everyone knows this persons name. He will have no peace once this becomes public record. It could discourage any other person from coming forward in a like situation. Please stop!!!!The person in question is a store clerk who had been asked to dub a videotape made by the alleged plotters to DVD, a tape that prosecutors say shows the men shooting weapons and calling for jihad.
The person is being called an "unsung hero," and it appears he wants to stay that way. The AP reports that, according to a Circuit City spokesperson, the clerk was an employee at the Mount Laurel Circuit City and is still with the company. The company is not releasing his name. The Daily News reports that "co-workers claimed they don't know who he is." More:
Circuit City workers in the store's red polo shirts mostly refused to talk to reporters and private security guards escorted them to cars.I'm actually kind of amazed that this person still has his privacy – not even Drudge has a name. Yet.At least a dozen TV news trucks sprouted antennas in the parking lot as shoppers gawked on the hot spring day.