Washington Post reporter John Solomon did everything he could to spy on fellow reporter Dan Eggen and to undermine and soften a Washington Post story at the crucial beginning of the US Attorney purge story. Remember, at this time it was Josh Marshall at talkingpointsmemo.com who had raised this story into the public consciousness, so much so that the Post and other big newspapers were forced to cover it. And when sabotaged stories like this one, with Solomon literally coordinating his writing with White House allies, threatened to make the story of the political purge fade, it was TPM who kept doing more original reporting and brought the story back to life. It ended with the resignation of Alberto Gonzales and the exposure of massive corruption in the White House and the Justice Department. Or at least those are the major results so far. I believe that the indictment of Karl Rove is now likely.
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