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thrwwwy on April 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

Eich's outing was as a result of a leak from an IRS employee.

Could he sue the US government, and/or the IRS employee that leaked the donor list?

It pains me to use a National Review blog as a source but it seems that the Obama administration hasn't made an effort to prosecute the leaker: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/362667/investigation-i...

dnr on April 4, 2014 [–]

Campaign contributions over $200 are public record in California. This information has been publicly available since 2008, it's just that nobody bothered to look before. You can see his contributions here (the site is really slow for me right now):

http://dbsearch.ss.ca.gov/

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