Gleick lawyers up; also, "longtime Democratic operative Chris Lehane...Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign press secretary, is helping Gleick pro bono with communications issues"

Researcher: I leaked Heartland docs - POLITICO.com Print View

Two sources in California — longtime Democratic operative Chris Lehane and Corey Goodman, a member of the Pacific Institute board of directors — confirmed to POLITICO that Gleick authored the Huffington Post blog confessing to be the source of the leak.
Lehane, Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign press secretary, is helping Gleick pro bono with communications issues. Gleick is represented by John Keker, a prominent San Francisco-based white colar criminal defense attorney.
"This is very Peter-esque if he discovers he did something wrong to get right out there," said Goodman, the managing director and co-founder of venBio, a health care investment firm. "There's a lot of people in these issues who don't do things like that.
“If he discovers he made a mistake, he'd want to be the first one to say so. Give him some credit for that,” Goodman added.