[onyx]

As you know, your article is far more serious an attack on POTUS than a typical, partisan hit-piece. It reveals you as having a brass-set, a "get Bush" agenda, and likely, a long and festering hatred for POTUS.

Without the work of FR and namely FReeper William McKinley, (our resident Sherlock Holmes) would you have bothered to write a retraction/explantion, however weak and CYA it was? Of course not.

It's cavilier and sloppy journalism to rely upon one single source, particularly when the hit-piece is so radio-active and the subject so serious.

Now we learn from you that you have been duped for 20 years by your "phantom" source. Incredible!

With all due respect, Mr. Thompson, it is my sincere hope that you are not a part of a concerted effort to bring-down POTUS, but your hit-piece has already sprouted a few legs.

I know for a fact, that both your orignal article and your explantion/retraction have been sent to the RNC, and, hopefully, passed on to the WH for review.

[Miss Marple]

Excellent. I would like to know the exact connection between Thompson, Pitt, and (of all people) Scott Ritter. Perhaps the White House will be able to find out.

[MJY1288]

I sent this story and all links about this story to at least 20 news outlets and shows, as well as the RNC, Sen. Frist, Whithouse, Tom Delay and Sen. Warner