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I’m going to do something right now that I don’t think I’ve ever done in my whole career as a newspaper reporter and columnist: Reveal my source — a source to whom I had promised anonymity.

The source is Vicki Huntington, the Independent MLA for Delta South.

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Huntington and her staff were the sources for my original story about a privacy breach on the B.C. Liberal Party website.

It’s a story that has now blown up into something much bigger, after Premier Christy Clark accused the NDP of trying to criminally hack into the Liberal website.

Clark’s comments infuriated Huntington, who has now relieved me of the promise of anonymity I made to her and her staff.

“When I heard the premier’s comments, accusing the NDP of criminal activity and saying this ‘hacking’ of their website was subverting democracy — I couldn’t take it anymore,” Huntington told me.

“I said, ‘Enough is enough. We have to go public on this now.’ ”