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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Leopold
.... According to a Washington Post report, the press release for Leopold's unpublished book Off the Record stated that "He says he was fired by the Los Angeles Times 'for threatening to rip a reporter's head off'".[12] Leopold says he quit Dow Jones Newswires in a dispute over his beat, but later learned the news service was planning to fire him because of a correction to one of his Enron stories: "Seems I got all of the facts wrong".[12] Leopold is currently the US correspondent for 95bFM in Auckland, New Zealand.[4] ....
On May 13, 2006, Leopold reported on Truthout that Karl Rove had been indicted by the grand jury investigating the Plame affair.[24] Rove spokesman Mark Corallo denied the story, calling it "a complete fabrication".[25] Truthout vigorously defended the story saying variously that it had two or three "independent sources," before the executive director, Marc Ash, issued a statement apologizing for “getting too far out in front of the news-cycle”. The grand jury concluded with no indictment of Rove.[26]
In his memoir, Courage and Consequence, Karl Rove addressed the Leopold article. Rove writes that Leopold is a "nut with Internet access" and that "thirty-five reporters called [Robert] Luskin or Corallo to ask about the Truthout report". According to Rove, "Fitzgerald got a kick out of the fictitious account and e-mailed Luskin to see how he felt after such a long day".[27] ....
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