Turbin's Rove indictment source.

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Wow, this Jason Leopold is an admitted serial liar and drug addict. Turns out he pretended to be someone else to try to get info from a Rove associate.

 

LMAO at Turbin's blind hatred of Bush leading to such an embarassing episode for him.

 

From an article by the guy Leopold used as a cover:

 

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.

 

Leopold says he gets the same rush from breaking a news story that he did from snorting cocaine. To get coke, he lied, cheated and stole. To get his scoops, he has done much the same. As long as it isn't illegal, he told me, he'll do whatever it takes to get a story, especially to nail a corrupt politician or businessman. "A scoop is a scoop," he trumpets in his memoir. "Other journalists all whine about ethics, but that's a load of crap."

 

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.

 

I called Corallo. He confirmed that my name was the one the caller had used. Moreover, the return number the caller had given him was off from mine by one digit. Corallo had never been able to reach me to find out it wasn't I who had called. He said he knew who Leopold was but had never talked to him.

 

I called Leopold. He gave me a profanity-filled earful, saying that he'd spoken to Corallo four times and that Corallo had called him to denounce the story after it appeared.

 

When he was done, I asked: "How would Corallo have gotten my phone number, one digit off?"

 

"Joe, I would never, ever have done something like that," Leopold said defiantly.

 

Except that he has done things like that. His memoir is full of examples. He did break big stories, but he lied to get many of them. He admits lying to the lawyers for Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow, making up stories to get them to spill more beans. "I was hoping to get both sides so paranoid that one was going to implicate the other," he wrote.

 

http://www.drudgereport.com/

 

You have to go to the story with the title:

 

REPORTER: My Unwitting Role in the Rove 'Scoop'...

 

 

....or register at the Washington Post.

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link fixed.

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Per torridjoe - 'An unimpeachable source'.

 

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By "unimpeachable" Turbin simply meant he couldn't be removed from his job by an act of Congress.