-Caveat Lector- <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/politics/04DRUD.html?searchpv=nytToday> May 4, 2001 Clinton Aide Settles With Matt Drudge By THE NEW YORK TIMES Sidney Blumenthal, an aide in President Bill Clinton's White House, has settled a libel suit that he and his wife, Jacqueline Jordan Blumenthal, brought in 1997 against Matt Drudge, whose Web site became a catch basin for negative information about Mr. Clinton. Instead of winning any payment, however, over accusations that Mr. Drudge later apologized for and retracted, the Blumenthals have agreed to pay Mr. Drudge's lawyer $2,500. The payment, Mr. Blumenthal said, is to ensure that the litigation and the publicity it brought Mr. Drudge come to an end. "We just decided for nuisance value that we would pay him off and make him go away and deprive him of his sort of oxygen," Mr. Blumenthal said. Mr. Drudge said the suit had propelled him "from rags to absolute riches ó and I got to keep them." In a brief report posted in August 1997, Mr. Drudge wrote that Mr. Blumenthal, a journalist who was just joining the White House staff, was being gossiped about in Republican circles as someone with "a spousal abuse past that has been effectively covered up." Shortly thereafter, he retracted the report and, in an interview with The Washington Post, apologized. The Blumenthals then filed their suit. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
