Phil: All fine and well, but again I hesitate to make a mountain out of this molehill in what was a fast moving story that turns out to be about a lot more than whether Edwards will suspend his campaign or not. For all of Smith’s sins, the one potentially mitigating unknown here is just who this “Edwards friend” was. If it was someone as close to Edwards as, say, Don Evans was to George W. Bush, I would think the reporter would not have needed a second source. Think we can ask Patrick Fitzgerald to look into the identity of this Edwards friend?
