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White House Tipped Off The Enquirer To Edwards Affair.
Now that most everyone has commented on Edwards betrayal of the voters perhaps a few questions more important lurk underneath the affair.
1. Who leaked the affair to the Enquirer?
2. Did the White House listen in on Edwards phone calls, intercept his emails... etc?
3. How did the Enquirer know about the hotel visit beforehand?
4. Why did Edwards break his silence now?
Sad, but with this neo-con crowd in the WHite House it is nearly impossible to believe that every Democratic candidate running for office is not under illegal surveillance. A fact that makes Edwards poor choices even worse than the affair. He wasn't narcissistic... he was just plain stupid.
1. Who leaked the affair to the Enquirer?
2. Did the White House listen in on Edwards phone calls, intercept his emails... etc?
3. How did the Enquirer know about the hotel visit beforehand?
4. Why did Edwards break his silence now?
Sad, but with this neo-con crowd in the WHite House it is nearly impossible to believe that every Democratic candidate running for office is not under illegal surveillance. A fact that makes Edwards poor choices even worse than the affair. He wasn't narcissistic... he was just plain stupid.
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Or human:
http://www.deusexmalcontent.com/2008/08/all-fall-down.html
August 10, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
or human..so right... it is a fact I cannot throw the first stone.
August 10, 2008 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your headline is disingenuous. While I agree those are important questions and its quite possible the wh was involved its meer speculation at this point and incendiary to post the title that way.
August 10, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
oceancat, your right... I should have had a question mark in the title...
August 10, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nonetheless, these are interesting questions, and I have also wondered about the timing of it when, from what I've heard, there are far fewer secrets among the insiders in Washington circles than we on the outside imagine.
August 10, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perhaps we could start a pool? I bet five bucks it was Hunter herself!
August 10, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is my sisters guess.
August 10, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Domga, next time put a question mark in the title. If you know something let us know. For example any DOJ involvement.
That would be huge news in light of how Spitzer was taken down.
August 10, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not hard to believe at all!
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001405
August 10, 2008 10:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obviously the leak came from within the Edwards camp.
August 10, 2008 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
The title is misleading and typical of tabloid journalism of the National Enquire ilk.
The body of this article is empty and speculative. It is suggestive and uninformative.
Moreover, the following 2 questions were answered, though not entirely, by Arianna Huffington, ABC News and reporters for the National Enquire.
1. Who leaked the affair to the Enquirer
4. Why did Edwards break his silence now?
August 10, 2008 11:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Enquirer is oddly enough quite a good investigative paper. It's rather absurd to assume that they needed the White House on such a broadly hinted at scandal.
August 11, 2008 2:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
The WH doesn't care about John Edwards - he's a proven electoral failure in his own right.
The better explanation is that The Enquirer had something to prove - they reported on Edward's affair last year and nobody believed them. They've probably trailed the woman looking for the evidence they needed to justify themselves. They suceeded.
The National Enquirer - America's Most Accurate Political Muckraker. What a sad state of affairs - pun intended.
August 11, 2008 2:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Big Game" Hunter?
Likely just another scalp on her political candidate conquest belt.
August 11, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
jezreel,
The answer to number one coming from the Enquirer itself seems less than clear... so I wouldn't say it has been answered.
"Why' the tip was credible begs more detail.
Wolf Blitzer: What got you guys going in this direction to begin with?
David Perel: We received what we thought was a credible tip, Wolf, and we started investigating it. A lot of times when we go down this road and the story turns out not to be true, we abandon it. But the more we dug in, the more information The Enquirer uncovered that was standing up, we were able to prove that, indeed, John Edwards had a sexual affair with Rielle Hunter. We first did the story in October without naming her and then we came back with a much tougher story in December 2007, where we not only named her, but we photographed her pregnant.
August 11, 2008 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Edwards seems to have a problem with leakers close to him --- how did the video of him combing his hair get out?
August 11, 2008 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know TMPC isn't technically news, but don't you think it's a little unfair to give a diary a headline that makes it sounds like a statement, when in fact it's a series of speculations?
It certainly wouldn't surprise me to discover that the White House was behind the NE Edwards story, but afaik there is not a shred of evidence showing it.
August 11, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Edward leaker's or people illegally flipped into informants after being hounded by DOJ.
Chicago Court Orders Discovery of DOJ Political Prosecutions
By Scott Horton
In civil litigation connected to one of a substantial number of federal prosecutions of campaign funding of contributors to Democratic candidate John Edwards...
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001405
Posted by de TOQUEville
August 11, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
By the way I got that link via some other commenter on here.....
August 12, 2008 4:49 AM | Reply | Permalink