Re: Leopold's story -- remember what happened to Doug Thompson??

[grasswire]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071003K.shtml

Here's just a snip of the story. Capitol Hill Blue's Doug Thompson was fed a story that was bogus, in order to discredit Thompson.

"On Tuesday, we ran a story headlined "White House admits Bush wrong about Iraqi nukes." For the first time, Wilkinson said he was willing to go on the record and told a story about being present, as a CIA contract consultant, at two briefings with Bush. He said he was retired now and was fed up and wanted to go public.

"He (Bush) said that if the current operatives working for the CIA couldn't prove the story was true, then the agency had better find some who could," Wilkinson said in our story. "He said he knew the story was true and so would the world after American troops secured the country."

After the story ran, we received a number of emails or phone calls that (1) either claimed Wilkinson was lying or (2) doubted his existence. I quickly dismissed the claims. After all, I had known this guy for 20+ years and had no doubt about his credibility. Some people wanted to talk to him, so I forwarded those requests on to him via email. He didn't answer my emails, which I found odd. I should have listened to a bell that should have been going off in my ear.

Today, a White House source I know and trust said visitor logs don't have any record of anyone named Terrance J. Wilkinson ever being present at a meeting with the President. Then a CIA source I trust said the agency had no record of a contract consultant with that name. "Nobody, and I mean nobody, has ever heard of this guy," my source said."

[johnfunk]

1. Doug Thompson burned that source, and burned him good

It looked to me then -- and now -- like a grade-AAA Kark Rove Ratfuck® at its finest.

And while I disagree with a lot of what Doug writes, I like his style and tenacity--that and his pouring a little high-octane gas on the lying source he's about to burn!

[Kagemusha]

2. Uh, but is this the only offense Doug's ever committed?

I'm under the impression that he's been in the tall tale business for a long time. Someone correct me if that impression's mistaken.

[wtmusic]

5. Don't believe a word on his blog

and you won't be too far off the mark.

[Quixote1818]

7. Bull Crap! Name just ONE story Thompson has been wrong on?

Name just one!

[rinsd]

8. LOL.....let's take a look.

Here's one saying Dems = GOP on corruption

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8596.shtml

Here's a couple of hit pieces on Pat Kennedy

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8558.shtml

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8563.shtml

Here's a Colbert sucks, Richard Cohen was right piece

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8587.shtml

And here's one scoop about Bill Clinton as supremely tempermental (I think Dougie recycled this one with Bush)

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~wbova/fn/gov/clinton_01.htm

And no stop at CHB would be complete without a cataloguing of Bill Clinton's supposed sexual assualts.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/allthepresidentswomen.htm

[BurtWorm]

3. That is classic Rove, by the way.

For what it's worth.

[HereSince1628]

4. But why burn Leopold? Recently he's mostly writing about Libby & Rove

the dangerous enemy that threatens the WH on those issues is Fitzgerald.

Trashing Leopold wouldn't slow Fitzgerald's juggarnaut.

[grasswire]

6. Why burn Doug Thompson?

Thompson was a Bush supporter. Rove uses SOMEONE in order to discredit the "story." In the case of Dan Rather, he got four birds with one stone. Rather, the AWOL story, Burkett, and CBS's producer.