Backstory: How Reuters uncovered Beto O'Rourke's teenage hacking days (they sat on story)

[TomSea]

Excerpt (in short, they sat on this story):

Backstory: How Reuters uncovered Beto O'Rourke's teenage hacking days

(Reuters) - Reuters reporter Joseph Menn exclusively revealed on Friday that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke belonged to one of the best-known groups of computer hackers as a teenager.

...But the origin of the story goes back more than two years.

Members of the group, which calls itself Cult of the Dead Cow, protected O’Rourke’s secret for decades, reluctant to compromise the former Texas Congressman’s political career.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-backstory-usa-politics-orourke-idUSKCN1QX02M

Reporters should report but whether it's one guy or the other, this is just some stupid stuff, someone wrote on the internet.

They were still connected to the net, I guess he did this in El Paso but it could have been later with his elite education I suppose.

[austingirl]

Too bad this didn't come out during the Senate election. Perhaps more publicity about Robert Francis' deviance would have tempered the fever for this twitchy freak.

[Right_in_Virginia]

How did Cruz's people miss this?

[Sanguine]

How did Cruz's people miss this?

Their crystal balls were cloudy?  (As an homage to Robert Francis' poetry)