'As for the content of the videos: I have no embarrassment or regret about them. The videos depict consenting adults engaged in intimate actions in their private lives. They all display fully consensual behavior, harming nobody.
'Obviously it can be uncomfortable and unpleasant when your private behavior is made public against your will – that’s why the behavior is private in the first place – but the only wrongdoing here is the criminal and malicious publication of the videos in an attempt to malign perceived political enemies and advance a political agenda.
'Others are, of course, free to form their own judgments, as some are prone to do about others’ private lives.
'It won’t change my work. I will continue to call out the many prongs of my journalism, and pursue the causes important to me, exactly as before.'
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