(I had a feeling something like this would come out..)
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Paper, rapped for outing Obama note, claims campaign pre-approved leak.
By Israel Insider staff July 28, 2008
What initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop of dubious moral propriety now seems to be a case of an Israeli paper being played by the Barack Obama campaign. Maariv, the second most popular newspaper in Israel, was roundly criticized for publishing the note Obama left in the Kotel. But now a Maariv spokesperson says that publication of the note was pre-approved for international publication by the Obama campaign...
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/13021.htm
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