Dude! I told you this was OFF the record. Sheesh. Now that you've blown it, we might as well get the rest of the story out. During the 2000 Florida controversy, Rush talked his buddy Clarence Thomas into drugging 3 of the liberal justices during both the Florida oral arguments and the voting session of the judges. As it turned out, only 2 of them needed to be druged -- Souter and Breyer. Steven's staff didn't let the plant get close enough to him to slip him the Mickey, and Thomas convinced Rush that whether drugged or not, no one could tell the difference with Ginsberg.
The details are sketchy, but it went something like this: Rove delivered the smack to Thomas, who had "undercover" clerks -- former foreign mercanaries who faked their law degrees -- distribute it when needed. The clerks spent a week with Limbaugh in the Pebble Beach area under the guise of Limbaugh playing golf, when they were actually at a public storage unit assembling the quantities of dope to be used. The dope was transported to Washington, taken in by Thomas, distributed to the victims, and the rest is history -- the judges stopped the recount. The only problem was that two of the justices got addicted (ironically, Ginsberg was one of them and she was never a target) and Thomas urged Rush to continue the supply or they risked being outed. Plame got wind of all this through foreign sources she built up in over 30 years at the CIA (even though she's only 40 years old), so Rush needed something and someone to run interference. Enter Novak, the story, and the defensive. It all blew up Sunday on ESPN when Thomas, mad as hell about Rush's comments on McNabb, practically begged CNN to run the story, gave all the material to the Enquirer with the sole stipulation that he and the Supreme Court scandal not be mentioned. Nailing Rush was all David Kendall, the Enquirer's chief counsel, wanted, so he willingly agreed to Thomas' stipulation. You know the rest.
I'm shocked that it took this long for all this to come out.
ROFLMAO
Talk about leaking, DUDE, you just served up the whole enchilada. I thought only us informational elite knew the whole story.
Now, thanks to you, Krugman at the Times will take this and run with it faster than Donovan McNabb can throw an interception.