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 ::::On the contrary, although Farmer is an expert, we cannot use his word to support a controversial statement about a living person.  On the other hand, if The Globe and Mail is considered a WP:RS, and it quotes Farmer, we can use it to support that Farmer said it was a lie, except that he didn't say that.  Sorry, he did say that, but we didn't report it that way in the deleted section.  I'm not sure that ""Farmer wrote that the Bush Administration statements were false."" is sufficiently distinct from gossip that it's usable, but we must make it clear that that is all we are saying.   We could remove the ""Farmer wrote"" clause only if Riverhead Books is a reliable publisher, regardless of any individual reliability Farmer might have.  —    "