Who are the Trump White House leakers
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There was Henry Wikoff, described as a "debonair but shady bague or homme lion news scavenger" who wrote a memoir about kidnapping a woman he loved who didn't love him back. coque iphone 5 pas cher There was John Watt, a corrupt White House gardener who had been accused of blackmailing the Lincolns. coque huawei coque iphone 8 pas cher There was Daniel Sickles, a lawyer who killed his wife's lover Francis Scott Key's son but evaded a convictionby claiming temporary insanity.
And there was Mary Todd Lincoln unpredictable, high tempered, flirty.
A leaker
The excerpts from Lincoln's State of the Union were telegraphed from Washingtonto the New York Herald, which employed Wikoff vieille bague or blanc as a kofsac offre speciale 925 bague en argent sterling exquise quatre feuilles fleurs zircon brillant anneaux pour femmes bijoux de fiancailles cadeaux freelance gatherer of news tips. coque iphone x Wikoff worked his way into Mary Todd Lincoln's life by becoming, according bague or blanc personnalisable to one account, her "guide in matters of social etiquette, domestic arrangements, and personal requirements, soldes bague or blanc including her toilette."
He also took her shopping a lot.
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The House Judiciary Committee called Wikoff to testify. coque iphone iphone 11 case He refused. iphone 11 case kate spade Committee minutes reveal the consequences: "The Sergeant at arms appeared at the bar of the House, and reported that he had executed the warrant of the Speaker, issued this day, for the arrest of Henry Wikoff, and that he had the body of the said Wikoff then at the bar of the House."
Before the committee sent him to kofsac nouvelle mode 925 bague en argent sterling couple micro incrustation cz amour coeur anneaux pour femmes bijoux de fiancailles cadeaux bijoux jail, Wikoff was given a chance to respond.
"The information which the committee demanded of me was received, such bague or blanc gemmyo as it was, under a pledge of strict secrecy, which I felt myself bound to respect," Wikoff said.
Then things got really weird.
The Herald reporter who broke the story also refused to testify, but he wasn't jailed. iphone 11 case Remarkably, he also revealed that Wikoff "told me that he got it from Mrs. coque samsung LincolnI would have not had bague or rose et pierre fine sent it unless I thought he had obtained it from such a responsible source."
But then things got even weirder.
Sickles, bague or carat the lawyer who got away with murder, represented Wikoff.