The original Clinton War Room operated out of Little Rock Arkansas during his run for President. The War Room that birthed the ‘vast left wing conspiracy’ was the one established in the White House in early June 1993 to orchestrate and drive the media cycle pro-Clinton, and also to suppress anti-Clinton stories.
Which they did very well! But then Hollywood gift-shop employee Matt Drudge posted on alt.sex.stories: “hello from sex drenched Hollywood”, date 28 December 1994, and from there moved onward ....
Matt started offering a gossip newsletter to the general public in March 1995, and Clinton rumor content in it appeared as early as a week later.
Source for Drudge history: http://www.soundbitten.com/020110.html
The Internet USENET was a lively backchannel but public source of Clinton stories in those years of 1994 thru 1998. I can speak as a participant on some of those ALT groups like ‘Whitewater’.
Even on the wild wide open USENET then it was clear a somewhat coordinated disinformation group operated some of them calling themselves ‘weasels’. They clogged and jammed the USENET channel fairly effectively by 1997. That’s why Free Republic was so great as a forum of refuge.
Drudge opened a website in 1997, and broke the Monica tale in 1998. DRUDGE WAS NOT AN OUTLET MANAGED BY THE WAR ROOM (imo).
I first posted at FR via a link thru Drudge, my first post was in support of Linda Tripp.
Remember, Eric moved on to one of the top deputy positions in the DOJ where he "solved the case" getting involved in a deal where a guy named Carl Cooper pled guilty provided they didn't prosecute his wife, his mother, and then adopt out his kid.
A critical piece of evidence, the guns used in the shootings, were not found by the DC cops at the place indicated by Carl.
There's still some doubt about this case ~ not that Carl wasn't involved in some way, but with the guns missing and the threat of prosecution and legal alienation pending for all his immediate relatives.......... it looks more like an Eric Holder "deal" than a good wrapup to a brutal crime.
Just checking the WarshPost staff writers on a critical story toward the conclusion of the situation were Philip P. Pan, Peter Slevin and Linda Wheeler and Metro researcher Bobbye Pratt.
Eric is rarely mentioned in anybody's stories ~ just in FR concerned threads.
Notice that none of the staff writers given credit are listed in our list of Journolist denizens YET, but who was their editor? Was he part of a predecessor crowd that guided these stories so that Eric Holder wasn't overtly tainted by a "blown case" ~ or even by the heavy handed solution getting badied about too much (possibly to his discredit).
And where's Eric? Certainly he must have been one of Ezra's associates.