BlogsCanada: E-GroupMulti-partisan political punditryNorman Spector on the Airbus affair- December 13, 2007 An interesting column by Norman Spector, on why the story of the Airbus affair fizzled out. In November of 2003, three days after William Kaplan broke the story of Karlheinz Schreiber's cash payments to Brian Mulroney in this newspaper, I happened to meet Stephen Harper in Victoria. The pain and bewilderment on his face when -- before we had even sat down -- he asked what he should say publicly suggests The Globe and Mail had not "buried the lead" -- as some have contended in...http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=c97b10c4-a198-4a9a-a8b8-33cfa6f5e759 |