Perhaps there is some sort of guideline preventing him from speaking about this, but I have not heard of it. District Attorneys and the FBI publicly announce people were informants all of the time, as long as the people they’re prosecuting are already prosecuted. They certainly don’t swear an oath not to comment on the subject even in the event of the persons’ death.
Yeah, this part seems odd to me. As Acosta, wouldn’t you want to tell everyone unambiguously as soon as things are over that you had to “follow orders from high up”? Acosta looks like one of the worst people on the planet in this story. If he could use the excuse of following orders, instead of just being bribed or intimidated somehow, then he’d look slightly less bad? So, once rumours about intelligence agency involvement were started, it seems like it would be in Acosta’s interest to give implicit support to these rumours without actually confirming them.
Still, I guess my point doesn’t explain why he explicitly claimed the Defense Department thing in the transition interviews.
Yeah, this part seems odd to me. As Acosta, wouldn’t you want to tell everyone unambiguously as soon as things are over that you had to “follow orders from high up”? Acosta looks like one of the worst people on the planet in this story. If he could use the excuse of following orders, instead of just being bribed or intimidated somehow, then he’d look slightly less bad? So, once rumours about intelligence agency involvement were started, it seems like it would be in Acosta’s interest to give implicit support to these rumours without actually confirming them.
Still, I guess my point doesn’t explain why he explicitly claimed the Defense Department thing in the transition interviews.