Posted on 05/19/2006 1:18:53 PM PDT by george76
Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter who last week “broke” the news that three major U.S. telecommunications companies were assisting the National Security Agency in building a database to more easily track any communications by potential terrorists, is listed as a donor to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt...
A search found a listing for "writer and journalist" Leslie Cauley, indicating she gave $2,000 to Gephardt on June 30, 2003, when Gephardt was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
And that seems not to be her only tie to Democratic politics ...
Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely to further cloud the credibility of her story...
There have also been questions about the timing of the story, which was given huge play on USA Today’s front-pages shortly before the former head of the National Security Agency, General Michael Hayden, was due to face confirmation hearings to be the next CIA director...
With the phone companies demanding a retraction and her own Democratic connections now revealed, the “value” of her unnamed sources seems increasingly dubious.
Could Leslie Cauley may be on her way to becoming a print version of CBS’s disgraced Mary Mapes?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Thanks. Wenesday's WSJ had all three denying the truth of the story. I missed it the first time.
In case this slipped thru the cracks....
She looks like Nina Totenburg (of Clarence Thomas fame) with fancier hair.
Remember Global Crossing it's mentioned.....enjoy....:-)
Thanks, had not seen it.
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