[ncalburt]

Carl was the Dem operative who was assigned to
Drop the Oct surprise about W 25 yr old drunk driving arrest in 2000.

[Verginius Rufus]

I never heard that Carl Cameron had anything to do with the "October surprise" on the Thursday before the election in 2000--I thought Chris Lahane was thought to be behind feeding that to the media (perfectly timed for maximum effect).

Back at the time someone on FR argued that the DUI arrest was so old that anyone snooping around courthouses in Maine looking for dirt on GWB wouldn't have found it, but that it would have been included in the FBI file on George H. W. Bush (since it involved a family member), so it could be that the Democrats knew about it only because of Hillary taking all those FBI files on Republicans to the White House for her operatives to go through.