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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (3805)	6/27/2001 9:42:18 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) of 93284

This is an interesting story.... Author Says He Lied in Book on Anita Hill _____From The Post_____ David Brock, who made his name trashing Anita Hill after the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, now says he lied -- and he's sorry. The formerly right-wing author, in a forthcoming book, says he "lost my soul" in printing allegations he knew to be untrue. Brock writes that he was "dumping virtually every derogatory -- and often contradictory -- allegation I had collected on Hill into the vituperative mix." Brock now charges that Supreme Court Justice Thomas used him to spread derogatory information about one of Thomas's critics -- an allegation strongly denied yesterday by the man who Brock says was the intermediary between them. "Thomas was complicit in an effort to discredit another witness against him with negative personal information, which is exactly what he claimed the Anita Hill forces had done to him," Brock said in an interview. Thomas declined to comment through a court spokeswoman. Brock's new book, "Blinded by the Right," which continues his recent renunciation of his conservative past, is excerpted in the August issue of Talk magazine....." washingtonpost.com

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