On the contrary although Farmer is an expert we can not 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