mo thomas: who really leaked anita hill's affidavit?

clarence thomas's confirmation hearing seemed to be done.

then person or persons unknown leaked the fact that the fbi took an explosive affidavit from anita hill, who'd worked for thomas at the eeoc under reagan before he became a judge.

hill had asked not to be called to testify, if possible.

you know the rest: anita's televised re-opened hearing quotes of clarence's alleged salacious remarks gave thomas the opportunity to wax righteously indignant and accuse the committee of "hi-tech lynching," arlen specter (r-pa) threatened hill with a perjury charge [which, in terms of arlen's career integrity low points, ranks 2nd only to getting murderer ira einhorn out on bail, allowing ira to flee to europe for 20 years], and alan simpson (r-wy) quoted shakespeare [but of course nobody in the easily-impressed media picked up on the fact that the lines from "othello" simpson used to defend thomas (Who steals my purse steals trash..../.../But he that filches from me my good name/Robs me of that which not enriches him,/And makes me poor indeed.) were not spoken by the tragic (african!) hero othello but by iago, the villain and hypocrite].

it was widely assumed that the dems were behind the leak.

but was that likely?

it had been reported that internal polls showed 51 votes against confirmation, so why would dems leak it?

no, this looks to me like another example of the 'spy who came in from the cold' scenario: the agent winds up—inadvertently?—crucifying the guy we thought he was there to help and aiding the guy he apparently meant to destroy.

anita hill was almost certainly used as an unwitting agent by g w bush's daddy—a former cia chief, you recall.

her evidence stirred up so much heat that a couple wishy-washy white libs switched their votes and gave thomas his lifetime seat.

not clarence's "hi-tech lynching," but anita's committee rape.