Reply #5: Besides Iran-Contra, LEDEEN Was One of BLUMENTHAL's Libelers [View All]

from BLUMENTHAL's "The CLINTON Wars", pp 471-2:

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....When I'd first met David Brock in August 1997, he had told me about his ongoing conversations with Drudge about the libel against me. "Drudge said," according to Brock, "that he doesn't care if his reputation is lowered. He said, 'I'll be the brightest star in the sky and Sidney Blumenthal will be nobody.' " And Drudge confided in Brock that he had been put up to libeling me by several Republican sources. One of them, he said, was Richard Carlson, ambassador to the Seychelles during the first Bush administration and a close associate of Richard Mellon Scaife. Drudge also said he had relied for advice upon Michael and Barbara Ledeen; Michael was a figure involved in the early stages of the Iran-Contra scandal who became a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, while his wife worked for the Independent Women's Forum. Drudge suggested that another source was John Fund, an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal who had been a ghostwriter for Rush Limbaugh and was close to Newt Gingrich. ....Tucker Carlson, Richard Carlson's son...."

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