[blam]

"Or two kerry was totally in the dark - which means Berger, Klintoon and others all knew for months but refused to tip kerry off...."

This is my guess.

[piasa]

Ping. The story was leaked through John Solomon; John Solomon, incidentally, is under subpoena in the Niger/Wilson/Plame Leak case along with a number of other reporters. As we know, Wilson, the husband of the 'agent number 9' Valerie Plame, is also a Kerry staffer. Why did Berger's big news go out through one of the same reporters as the Plame business- apparently with the full approval of both Berger and his lawyer? Or is Solomon just a really popular fire hydrant to leak on?

Here are the subpoenaed reporters of Nigerlfap/Plamegate fame:

Robert Novak, "Crossfire," "Capital Gang" and the Chicago Sun-Times

Knut Royce and Timothy M. Phelps, Newsday

Walter Pincus, Richard Leiby, Mike Allen, Dana Priest and Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post

Matthew Cooper, John Dickerson, Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy and James Carney, Time magazine

Evan Thomas, Newsweek

Andrea Mitchell, "Meet the Press," NBC

Chris Matthews, "Hardball," MSNBC

Tim Russert, Campbell Brown, NBC

Nicholas D. Kristof, David E. Sanger and Judith Miller, The New York Times

Greg Hitt and Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal

John Solomon, The Associated Press

Jeff Gannon, Talon News

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According to another Freeper:

Someone from the RNC needs to point out, RIGHT NOW, that John Solomon of the AP (who 'broke' this story) is Lanny Davis' favorite leakee, and that clearly they leaked it now, to prevent embarassment to Kerry.
And the RNC should be demanding all correpondence between the Kerry Campaign,and the DNC, and from Bergers Lawyer to DOJ.
19 posted on 07/21/2004 10:00:47 AM PDT by hobbes1