IF you read the entire article there is a link under Rick Tyler and another whole article...
In the linked article (at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/19/cruz-carson-held-secret-meeting-about-dirty-tricks.html?via=twitter_page ) the “Republican operative” (as this thread’s article described him/her) who said Carson smiled but Cruz wouldn’t look at him is identified as the CARSON campaign:
“After Carson spoke at the convention, and saw Cruz in the hallway again, Cruz didn’t even look at Carson, according to the latter’s campaign.
“There was a political play there and it didn’t work for them,†a Republican operative close to the campaign told The Daily Beast. “The meeting didn’t go as well as Cruz wanted it to go. Carson had a smile on his face and was looking right at him.â€
It also says,
“Reporters were allegedly already calling the Carson campaign as the meeting was going on, with the two full-grown men in a closet that allegedly had no chairs, which indicates that someone leaked details in advance of The Daily Beast being informed about the meeting.”
And...
“Ted Cruz called a private meeting with the former neurosurgeon in South Carolina on Thursday night, the Carson campaign told The Daily Beast. It did not go as planned.” (IOW, it was the Carson campaign who told Daily Beast about the meeting. They claim it was after reporters were already there, having been told about the meeting in advance. But according to http://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-presidential-candidates-met-in-storage-closet-to-discuss-dirty-tactics/ , this Daily Beast report was the first report about it. Strange that those reporters outside the door didn’t get the scoop but this Daily Beast hit piece did...)
“Carson’s campaign confirmed the meeting—which was was supposed to be short and off-the-record—and blamed the Cruz campaign for leaking the fact that it occurred in an attempt to rectify his public image.”
At the above link it says,
“In a statement provided to CBS, the Carson campaign said, “Clearly they (the Cruz campaign) thought the meeting would produce something for them politically” and that “it appears that Cruz still resists accepting any responsibility.”
So the Carson campaign reported to the Daily BEast and that was the first report that came out, but they blamed Cruz for the story leaking out... And the Carson campaign immediately gave a statement to CBS saying that Cruz refuses to accept responsibility - dredging up the whole thing again.
The CBS report also says:
“Carson wanted the meeting to remain off the record, and suggested that the Cruz campaign leaked it to the press. The retired neurosurgeon said earlier this month that Cruz had asked for a one-on-one meeting to discuss what happened on the night of the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1.”
IOW, Carson had leaked the story of Cruz asking for a meeting earlier in Feb.
If the Cruz campaign had leaked information about this meeting that was supposed to be private, then it would be strange for reporters to be contacting the CARSON campaign while the meeting was going on. The Carson campaign made it sound like the meeting was arranged quickly, and if the Cruz campaign had reported it as soon as they knew it was going to happen then, the reporters would have gotten back to the person who leaked it - their source for even knowing anything about it. But then again, the reporters that Cruz supposedly leaked the story never actually reported on it.... strange.... It was the people that CARSON’s team leaked it to that actually reported it.
Carson’s Secret Service people were in the hallway and told reporters that Cruz and Carson were in the room. Cruz’s Secret Service people were not mentioned. All the sources I can see in this article are Carson’s people, often referred to as “Republican operatives”. The article is extremely poorly-written with many factual errors - always benefitting Carson. Both articles read like hit pieces.
For instance, “In the weeks after the Iowa caucus, the 2016 Committee, a PAC affiliated with Carson, has spent a great deal of time fundraising off of Cruz’s lie.”
Lie? Nobody has been able to point out a factually-incorrect statement that the Cruz team made. But then, this reporter got wrong what Cruz’s people even said so nothing surprising about the author inaccurately claiming that Cruz had lied.
Another example: “Most recently the Rubio campaign slammed Cruz for a ridiculous photoshopped image that depicted Marco Rubio shaking (left) hands with President Obama.”
Ridiculous? That’s commentary, dude. You’re supposed to be pretending to be a reporter, remember?
The whole thing smells to me of a stab in the back from Carson’s people.
I’ve already lost respect for Carson and a lot of other people over this whole claim that Cruz’s team deliberately lied, but this very much looks like Carson’s people lied to frame Cruz’s people as politicizing this, leaking the story against Carson’s wishes, making Carson late, and Cruz refusing to take responsibility... when THEY leaked the story to one of their own supporters (or at least somebody who has a vendetta against Cruz) who was then the only media entity to report it, in spite of not being right there when the meeting occurred, as a bunch of reporters Cruz had supposedly leaked to were (but after rushing there to get the scoop none of them actually wrote a scoop...) And after this meeting (where Carson still insisted that Cruz should fire people for reporting what CNN had accurately reported about what CArson’s crew had told them - even though Carson didn’t fire whoever told CNN the supposed “lie”) Carson was seen in the hall smiling and gloating while Cruz acted upset.
This stinks. Royally stinks.