He had done precisely that with Troopergate, secretly arranging for the troopers to tell their stories to Bill Rempel, a ferocious investigative reporter with the Los Angeles Times.

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The strategy worked: when Rempel's nervous editors held his story, Brock rushed into print, thereby forcing the Los Angeles Times to publish its far more substantial account of Clinton's rampant womanizing.

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"It's an interesting concept and it certainly provides a potential value for timing and alerting people to take a break, " David Rempel, Director of the Ergonomics Program at UC Berkeley and Professor of Medicine at UCSF, told Wired.

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Still, fearing that Rempel's editors might get cold feet, Jackson had arranged for an ideologically sympathetic "backup" -- in this case the conservative American Spectator's resident "hit man" David Brock -- to be given the same stories on an embargoed basis.

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