The Newsroom (TV Series)

Contempt (2014)

Thomas Sadoski: Don Keefer

Quotes 

• Sloan Sabbith : His logic is inconsistent.

  Don Keefer : How?

  Sloan Sabbith : He doesn't believe his source should have leaked classified documents.

  Don Keefer : Neither do I.

  Sloan Sabbith : But, he's unwilling to help law enforcement capture the source by identifying him.

  Don Keefer : He can't. I'd be unwilling, and so would you.

  Sloan Sabbith : I know. But, following that logic, he should also not be willing to broadcast the story. If he believes no one should ever leak because it poses a credible threat, then why is he broadcasting the story?

  Don Keefer : Well, I can't speak for Will, but I will. Uh, this leak he believes is a good leak. What he's very reasonably worried about is the bad leak, so he'd prefer there are no leaks.

  Sloan Sabbith : You and Will are making the same unilateral decision you don't want a leaker to make.

  Don Keefer : I trust strangers less than I trust me.

  Sloan Sabbith : Your logic is consistent though horrifying.

  Jim Harper : No one's gonna ever guess you guys are a couple.

• Sloan Sabbith : Somebody ratted us out?

  Wyatt Geary : Yes.

  Sloan Sabbith : Nobody around would drop a dime. You're blowin' smoke. Who cheesed?

  Don Keefer : Okay, Mugsy.