Reply #50: Yes, my primary issue is that the paper is hyping this as if they'd uncovered Watergate 2.

[Jim Lane]

The article also ignores information that was published, at the time of the adoption (2001), explaining that Socks and Buddy didn't get along, and could be kept apart in the White House but not in the Clintons' new home in Chappaqua. After Chelsea (who adopted Socks from a friend's cat's litter) left for college, Socks had become attached to Betty Currie, so Currie adopted her. The Socks the Cat Fan Club website has some Washington Post excerpts (from 2001!) detailing the event: <http://www.geocities.com/socksthecat.geo/>