WaPo puts the final nail in what was a short and troubling career in Journalism.
This story is almost too much to believe, but as with almost everything about Leopold truth is stranger than fiction. Except the fiction he writes as truth of course.
So without further ado I'll let the WaPo story speak for itself.
My Unwitting Role in the Rove 'Scoop'
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By Joe Lauria
Sunday, June 18, 2006; Page B02
The May 13 story on the Web site Truthout.org was explosive: Presidential adviser Karl Rove had been indicted by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald in connection with his role in leaking CIA officer Valerie Plame's name to the media, it blared. The report set off hysteria on the Internet, and the mainstream media scrambled to nail it down. Only . . . it wasn't true.
Which three of the remaining paragraphs to pick is the tough part.
Much more below...
Here are some choice clips
I met Leopold once, three days before his Rove story ran, to discuss his recently published memoir, "News Junkie." It seems to be an honest record of neglect and abuse by his parents, felony conviction, cocaine addiction -- and deception in the practice of journalism.
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Before we parted, I told him a bit about myself -- that I freelance for numerous newspapers, including the Sunday Times of London. His publicist had earlier given him my cellphone number.
Three days later, Leopold's Rove story appeared. I wrote him a congratulatory e-mail, wondering how long it would be before the establishment media caught up.
Now here comes the juice...
Merritt had called Mark Corallo, a former Justice Department spokesman who is now privately employed by Rove. She reported that Corallo said he had "never spoken with someone identifying himself as 'Jason Leopold.' He did have conversations Saturday and Sunday . . . but the caller identified himself as Joel something or other from the Londay [sic] Sunday Times. . . . At one point . . . he offered to call Joel back, and was given a cell phone number that began with 917. When he called the number back, it turned out not to be a number for Joel."
A chill went down my back. I freelance for the Sunday Times. My first name is often mistaken for Joel. My cellphone number starts with area code 917.
Goodness gracious. What a slime ball. Click the link to find out what a lying sac Leopold is and how done his career is.
He is no friend of the left, and Ash, Pitt, and TruthOut[the window] hitched their wagons to a dead horse.