Glenn Beck Suggests His Sources Could Be Murdered

Glenn Beck

One day after a federal judge ordered Glenn Beck to divulge the names of two sources he relied on for reporting about the Boston Marathon bombing, the radio talk personality is suggesting that doing so might get them murdered.

Politico reports Beck mentioned a conspiracy theory during his radio show Wednesday, contending that a Democratic National Committee staffer killed in Washington last month was not the victim of street crime, but a politically directed hit.

Beck went on to appear to link that episode to a judge's ruling Tuesday — first reported by Politico — requiring Beck to name two Department of Homeland Security officials he allegedly relied on for reports linking a Saudi Arabian student to the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013.

"Read the papers," Beck said. "Read the Internet. Sources are under attack. Confidential sources are under attack and you cannot reveal confidential sources because there are sources that are concerned about this very kind of thing ... I am convinced, after talking to people in the government and talking through others to sources, I am absolutely convinced that people feel this way; that if I say anything. ..."