Cokie did threw some hard balls at Blumenthal's lawyer. Maybe the press is coming to the realization that Clinton is no friend of a free press as evidensed by the petty vindictive lawsuit by the boy's petty vindictive surrogate:
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By Greg Pierce
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Uh-oh
"Hey, everybody, duck! Sidney Blumenthal's got subpoena power!"
So warns U.S. News & World Report in its Washington Whispers column.
"The conspiracy-minded White House communications adviser and former journalist was finally granted power to seek subpoenas last week in his defamation lawsuit against Internet gossip monger Matt Drudge (who publicized, then hastily retracted, a false rumor that Blumenthal had abused his wife). Starting June 19, Blumenthal will enjoy a 120-day window during which he may pursue depositions from about a dozen people who may have fed Drudge damaging information about Blumenthal and, conceivably, President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and other White House types," the magazine said.
"Whispers speculates one target will be Wall Street Journal editorialist John Fund, fingered last December in Vanity Fair as Drudge's possible source on the wife-beating charge. (The Vanity Fair piece, by Jennet Conant, cited three unnamed people who recalled hearing Fund repeat the rumor and quoted Fund as saying he knew the rumor to be in circulation, though not that he'd repeated it himself; Fund affirmatively denied to Conant that he was Drudge's source.)"
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