Stratton's fears were later realised when Lord McAlpine was named on Twitter by a succession of Left-wingers including Sally Bercow, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow. She is on the Labour Party's approved list of candidates for Parliament.
Another who joined the lynch mob was George Monbiot, the Guardian columnist and leading campaigner against "global warming".
Stratton, who succeeded Michael Crick as Newsnight's political editor earlier this year, confirms that she did not speak to MacQuarrie before he published his report, but declines to comment further.
A spokesman for the BBC refuses to comment.
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