Ensign NRSCers' e-mails show affair was known inside organization over a year ago

By GottaLaff

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Dear Rushpublics,

E-mails are a written record of stuff. They get discovered.

Love, Laffy:

The emails, between Mike Slanker and Doug Hampton and Lindsey Slanker and Cindy Hampton, show the Slankers knew of the affair between John Ensign and Cindy Hampton while they were working in 2008 at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which the senator headed.

But... but... wasn't it the case that nobody knew until after the Big News Conference?

Slanker now says he did indeed find out shortly after he hired Hampton, but did not intend to mislead the media.

No, of course not. That's why we're just finding out about it.

E-mails here and here.

Lies. And then, more lies.

Burnt toast.

UPDATE: Rachel Maddow on MSNBC just now reminds us that the son of the paramour was employed during the time of the e-mail exchanges. Oops. The teenaged son was on the payroll in some kind of "policy role", said Rachel just now. This raises all kinds of questions, one being how distracted Ensign was while on the job.

Ensign's wife, Darlene, called Mike Slanker and said he was hired because of the affair. And so, so much more. I'll find the video of the segment.

H/t: VNDNBRG