Reply #29: He wasn't exactly an insider to the Kerry campaign.

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He's a democrat, but his firm represents people of all different stripes, including Republicans, and Matalin is a partner in his consulting firm.

Unless he had a confidentiality agreement with the Kerry campaign, which he probably didn't, since he wasn't working for them, when Kerry's campaign told him that their plan was to challenge, they were basically making a public disclosure.

And, like I said, I still don't see why they backed off.

Maybe they wanted Carville to tell people just to see what the response would be.

Anyway, since I'm not finding much context to this issue here at DU, I guess I'm going to have to read the part in Woodward's book where he talks about this.