Where did he get the story about the Clinton/Lewinsky affair?
I originally understood — and posted here before — that Matt’s source was Lucianne Goldberg, a literary agent who relishes taking credit for her role in leaking this scandal. Lucianne had been working with Linda Tripp on a book project that, if I understand correctly, did not ultimately materialize. She urged Linda to tape record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky. It turns out that he’d gotten communication on this rumor before which he didn’t at first act upon. At Matt’s first phone call to Lucianne, she knew that Newsweek had killed a piece by Michael Isikoff about the intern story and that there were shouting arguments in the office. She offered to transmit Monica’s resume to Matt, which he posted on the Drudge Report. The breaking news story was as much about Newsweek’s decision to ax the piece as it was about the Presidential scandal itself.
