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Title: Evidence suggests New York Times editors deliberately held McCain lobbyist story
Source: Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Washi ... McCainlobbyist_story_0221.html
Published: Feb 21, 2008
Author: John Byrne
Post Date: 2008-02-21 10:36:13 by robin
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Comments: 31

Evidence suggests New York Times editors deliberately held McCain lobbyist story

02/21/2008 @ 8:22 am

Filed by John Byrne

Hints that Washington Post also had elements of story

The New York Times faces a gathering storm after a panoply of new reports suggest the paper sat on a story detailing an alleged romantic involvement between Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and 40-year-old Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman.

Last night, two Times staffers told Politico the second lead reporter on the Times story, Marilyn Thompson, announced she was leaving her job at the Times Feb. 12 after concerns the piece had not yet run. Thompson said she was returning to the Washington Post.

"Rumors had circulated internally that Thompson had been working on the McCain piece and was dissatisfied it had not yet run, according to two Times staffers," the site's Jonathan Martin and Michael Calderone wrote.

Martin asked Times Washington Bureau chief Dean Baquet if sitting on the piece had anything to do with her departure.

"I'm not going to go into stories that may or may not run in the paper," Baquet said. "I had long conversations with Marilyn, and it's about her regarding the Post as home."

Thompson's byline is the only one of the four authors not linked on the Times piece.

What's more, McCain aide Charlie Black said late last night that the Times had only moved their piece because another piece was to come out in The New Republic.

After The New Republic's reporter began making phone calls to the Times, they decided to publish, he said.

In a statement, the magazine said they would run a piece today detailing behind the scenes efforts at the Times.

In a blog post, The New Republic's senior editor Noam Scheiber wrote: "The McCain campaign is apparently blaming TNR for forcing the Times' hand on this story. We can't yet confirm that. But we can say this: TNR correspondent Gabe Sherman is working on a piece about the Times' foot-dragging on the McCain story, and the back-and-forth within the paper about whether to publish it. Gabe's story will be online tomorrow."

Drudge fingered story in December

Last December, the conservative news and gossip site The Drudge Report floated a story averring that McCain was in a "ferocious behind the scenes battle" not to publish a report saying McCain had given special treatment to a female lobbyist. During the 2004 election campaign, Drudge published an apocryphal story alleging Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) had an affair, so Drudge's McCain story seemed to be of dubious authenticity.

But Drudge's claim may warrant a fresh look following the story's release.

"Just weeks away from a possible surprise victory in the primaries, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz has been waging a ferocious behind the scenes battle with the NEW YORK TIMES, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned," the site remarked, "and has hired DC power lawyer Bob Bennett to mount a bold defense against charges of giving special treatment to a lobbyist!"

"McCain has personally pleaded with NY TIMES editor Bill Keller [at left] not to publish the high-impact report involving key telecom legislation before the Senate Commerce Committee, newsroom insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT," Drudge continued. "The paper's Jim Rutenberg has been leading the investigation and is described as beyond frustrated with McCain's aggressive and angry efforts to stop any and all publication."

"The drama involves a woman lobbyist who may have helped to write key telecom legislation," he added. "The woman in question has retained counsel and strongly denies receiving any special treatment from McCain."

The lead author on the Times piece: Jim Rutenberg.

Within hours, Post had several anonymous sources

A 1,000 word piece in Thursday's Washington Post -- which quotes four anonymous sources dealing with an alleged "inappropriate" liaison between Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) could suggest the paper already had a story ready to roll, raising new questions about why media outlets held a story that was apparently in the works as early as December.

The Post piece, "McCain's Ties To Lobbyist Worried Aides," by Michael Shear and Jeffrey Birnbaum, did not draw from the rich panoply of sources the Times piece did, and did not as strongly suggest McCain had had an affair.

The Washington Post receives early copies of the Times under an agreement whereby the Post is able to rewrite short form versions of Times pieces. The Times story, "For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk" was posted early Wednesday evening.

But its emergence on the same day as the Times piece -- with four sources of its own -- adds new kindling to claims that major media outlets sat on the story last year.

Author floated rumor LA Times held story

Journalist and author Ron Rosenbaum wrote in a blog post from October of last year that he'd heard the Los Angeles Times was sitting on a sex story about a presidential candidate.

Rosenbaum said he'd "run into a well-connected media person, who told me flatly, unequivocally that 'everyone knows' The LA Times was sitting on a story, all wrapped up and ready to go about what is a potentially devastating sexual scandal involving a leading Presidential candidate." The LA Times apparently never did publish the piece, if it is indeed the same story as reported by the New York Times.

The LA Times, however, did not publish an exclusive piece on the topic Thursday. Their article, "McCain's ties to female lobbyist questioned," relied on compiled wire reports from the Post and the Times, to which the Los Angeles paper is a subscriber.

The Post piece cited a senior McCain aide as the main source for their story. The Times cited the same aide, though with less emphasis.

"John Weaver, who was McCain's closest confidant until leaving his current campaign last year, said he met with Vicki Iseman at the Center Cafe at Union Station and urged her to stay away from McCain," the authors wrote. "Association with a lobbyist would undermine his image as an opponent of special interests, aides had concluded."

"We were running a campaign about reforming Washington, and her showing up at events and saying she had close ties to McCain was harmful," another anonymous aide said. "'The aide said the message to Iseman that day at Union Station in 1999 was clear: 'She should get lost.' The aide said Iseman stood up and left angrily."

Three "telecom lobbyists" and a former McCain aide spoke on condition of anonymity to the Post. It's unclear whether Weaver was a fifth source.

"I never discussed with him alleged things I had 'told people,' that had made their way "back to him," she wrote in an e-mail message. She said she never received special treatment from Mr. McCain's office.

Perhaps most damning in the Times piece is its second paragraph: "A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client's corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself -- instructing staff members to block the woman's access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity."

According to the Post, the lobbyist's firm is "heavy with municipalities and local government entities, which suggests that its major emphasis is on the controversial business of winning narrowly targeted, or 'earmarked,' appropriations."

Both the Times and the Post shied away from making direct sexual allegations, focusing instead on a tamer line: that McCain's close association with a lobbyist undermined his issue as a vociferous supporter of campaign finance reform.

Times no stranger to 'holding story' claims

The New York Times is no stranger to criticism over holding explosive content.

In late 2005, the Times published their now famous piece revealing a secret National Security Agency wiretapping program. Though its lead author, James Risen, has refused to comment about events leading up to its publication under an agreement with the paper, a soon-to-be released book project seems to have pushed the Times to publish the piece, the details of which they'd had for some time.

"According to multiple newsroom sources close to Mr. Risen, the reporter was vocal in his desire to get the wiretapping piece into print, and he informed Times Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman that the material would be appearing in his book," the New York Observer wrote in early 2006. "Mr. Risen left the paper on book leave in January 2005 and resumed his campaign to get The Times to publish the wiretapping piece when he returned to the bureau last June. That set off a renewed push by The Times to get the story into print. Mr. Taubman resumed discussions with senior Bush administration officials over the paper's interest in publishing the scoop, according to sources with knowledge of the events, culminating in the Dec. 6 Oval Office face-off pitting President George W. Bush against Mr. Keller, Mr. Taubman and Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr."

In the final story, the authors admitted they had held the piece for a year because of concern from Bush Administration officials.

"The White House asked The New York Times not to publish this article, arguing that it could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny," the authors wrote. "After meeting with senior administration officials to hear their concerns, the newspaper delayed publication for a year to conduct additional reporting."

Co-bylined with Eric Lichtblau, Risen's story, "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts," appeared in the paper Dec. 16, 2005.


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#1. To: All, *Ron Paul for President 2008* (#0)

Think McCain would have done so well if this story had been published sooner?

UPDATED: Bay Buchanan on GOP: ‘We assume our candidates have been loyal to their family."

Bay Buchanan said this after calling the NY Times/McCain love fest story a smear/hit job on CNN to Anderson Cooper:

Bay: This is not the Democratic Party, this is a party of values. We assume our candidates have been loyal to their family.

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&^&*%#@!___Sorry, I—just fell off my chair from laughter. Let’s ask her about David Vitter and Larry Craig and Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani and. Bay, who was supporting the Mitt Romney campaign— feels it would have had an impact on the primary….David Gergen says it’s a red herring that the Times held onto the story for political reasons and then he hit her on the family value meme by reminding her of the Mark Foley story. She just shrugged it off….haha

UPDATE: We hear there are a bunch of reporters going after this story now, but The Washington Post has a name and it’s John Weaver—a very close friend to McCain:

Aides to Sen. John McCain confronted a female telecommunications lobbyist in late 1999 and asked her to distance herself from the senator during the presidential campaign he was about to launch, according to one of McCain’s longest-serving political strategists.

John Weaver, who served as McCain’s closest confidant until leaving his current campaign last year, said he met with Vicki Iseman at the Center Cafe in Union Station and urged her to stay away from McCain. Association with a lobbyist would undermine his image as an opponent of special interests, aides had concluded…read on

'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.'
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.

robin  posted on  2008-02-21   11:22:25 ET  (3 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: robin (#0)

"The drama involves a woman lobbyist who may have helped to write key telecom legislation," he added. "The woman in question has retained counsel and strongly denies receiving any special treatment from McCain."

Hmmmmmm.

"Tune in next week to see if doing nothing helps." -Deek Jackson

angle  posted on  2008-02-21   11:32:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: angle (#2)

Bay: This is not the Democratic Party, this is a party of values. We assume our candidates have been loyal to their family.

So in a way, Barney Frank and Slick may do as they please since they are the party of no serious family/moral values.

'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.'
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.

robin  posted on  2008-02-21   11:35:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: robin (#1)

Ed Schultz on his radio show seemed pretty confident that the New York Times would have a follow-up story. It would be funny if they turn out to have the evidence to refute today's denials.

Something else that I heard on another show: the lobbying firm has taken down all references to the lobbyist lady on their Web site.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2008-02-21   14:13:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: aristeides (#4)

this background info on Ms. Iseman is somewhat damning if you are cynical enough:

old.www.iup.edu/publicati...issues/Fall02/iseman.shtm

From her office windows, Vicki Iseman ’90 has a great view of Washington, D.C. The Indiana native is one of the youngest people in the lobbying firm of Alcalde and Fay and one of its most senior partners.

Two weeks after graduating from IUP with a degree in elementary education, Iseman joined a friend in Washington and was hired as a receptionist. With only a few months’ experience on the job, she said she “walked into my boss’s office [the president of the company] and said, ‘You don’t really know me, but I answer the phones. I’m a college graduate and I’d like you to consider me for a secretarial or an administrative position.’” He agreed to try her out for three months. Within a year she became his special assistant.

Photo: Lobbyist Vicki Iseman is well connected in Washington.Alcalde and Fay represents clients from cruise lines and universities to airports and broadcasters. With no background in politics or telecommunications, Iseman realized she needed to know as much as possible to survive her new job. She spent most of her waking hours learning the business, and it paid off handsomely. Eight years later she became the youngest partner ever in the firm, counting among her clients PAXtv, Religious Voices in Broadcasting, Telemundo, the Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation. In addition, she has met Melanie Griffith, Britney Spears, Bo Derek, and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Iseman said that the most important aspect of her job is the effect that one person can have on legislation in small communities and educational institutions. “Where my heart lies is in education,” she said. “I believe it is the great equalizer.”

'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.'
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.

robin  posted on  2008-02-21   14:38:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: robin (#5)

He agreed to try her out for three months. Within a year she became his special assistant.

She spent most of her waking hours learning the business, and it paid off handsomely.

I can imagine.

"Tune in next week to see if doing nothing helps." -Deek Jackson

angle  posted on  2008-02-21   15:06:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: angle (#6)

I read a Washington Post squib that they and the NYT have been talking to people within McCains camp.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-02-21   15:09:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: robin (#5)

“Where my heart lies is in education,” she said. “I believe it is the great equalizer.”

Right, sure, uh huh.

Elementary teachers are very scarce, in huge demand for high paying jobs in Washington and NY.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-02-21   15:13:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: angle (#6)

She spent most of her waking hours learning the business, and it paid off handsomely.

She traded one figure for six figures.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-02-21   15:14:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: robin (#0)

George looks more like a retard everyday.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2008-02-21   15:31:22 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: angle. all (#2)

I found this portal while searching for Vicki

mahalo.com/Vicki_Iseman

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Lod  posted on  2008-02-21   15:40:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: angle (#6)

He agreed to try her out for three months. Within a year she became his special assistant.

She spent most of her waking hours learning the business, and it paid off handsomely.

I can imagine.

That was exactly my thought.

Kneepads by Gucci?

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-02-21   15:59:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: lodwick (#11)

I finally found a picture of her (here) .

The eyes are the mirror of the soul, or so it is said, and this woman has a very dark soul.

She reminds me of women I have seen who are involved in criminality and evil - there is a deep dark pit where others have warmth and compassion.

You can find the same type in other "professions". That which we value as good has burned very dim and dark and is replaced with a salacious desire to do evil. Likely she gets some sick, and perverse, erotic thrill from it. Very, very, dangerous and not to be trusted - ever.

Given McInsane's demonic aspects I can see why they would be mutually attracted.

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-02-21   16:35:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Original_Intent (#13)

The eyes are the mirror of the soul, or so it is said, and this woman has a very dark soul.

I have to agree.


Why do we fall sir? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. -- Alfred, Batman Begins

farmfriend  posted on  2008-02-21   16:46:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Original_Intent (#13)

Sen. John McCain and his wife Cindy leave at the conclusion of a news conference in Toledo, Ohio.

His campaign dismisses the allegations as 'gutter politics.' His rival for the GOP presidential nomination, Mike Huckabee, says he knows McCain to be 'a man of integrity.'

"Tune in next week to see if doing nothing helps." -Deek Jackson

angle  posted on  2008-02-21   17:59:54 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: All (#15)

"I was glad Cindy was by his side--- she was the 26 year old he met at a convention in Hawaii while he was a married 43 year old man with children. " -Submitted by: RG

"Tune in next week to see if doing nothing helps." -Deek Jackson

angle  posted on  2008-02-21   18:02:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: robin (#0)

Sounds like one of the items RP was referring to a few weeks ago.

"Satan / Cheney in "08" Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator

tom007  posted on  2008-02-21   18:36:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: tom007 (#17)

Interesting, I don't remember him referencing anything about McCain.

'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.'
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.

robin  posted on  2008-02-21   18:40:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: robin (#18)

him referencing anything about McCain.

He made a cryptic comment along the lines of "Well remember that their may be more information coming out about the candidates in the future". Three weeks ago?

"Satan / Cheney in "08" Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator

tom007  posted on  2008-02-21   18:52:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: robin (#0)

100 bottles of war on the wall, 100 bottles of war....

http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm

nobody  posted on  2008-02-21   18:57:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: tom007 (#19)

He made a cryptic comment along the lines of "Well remember that their may be more information coming out about the candidates in the future". Three weeks ago?

Oh my, and then there was one.

'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.'
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.

robin  posted on  2008-02-21   19:02:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: tom007 (#19)

The Washington Post made a comment that they and the NYT were both having conversations with McCain people. I thot that was interesting.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-02-21   19:08:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Original_Intent, farmfriend, all (#13)

Vicki and Juan - what a pair.

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Lod  posted on  2008-02-21   19:10:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: robin, christine, TwentyTwelve, Wudidiz, Ferret Mike, Kamala, Pinquinite, aristeides, Peppa, tom007, angle, FOH, _______, lodwick, Burkeman1, Brian S, all (#21)

He made a cryptic comment along the lines of "Well remember that their may be more information coming out about the candidates in the future". Three weeks ago?

Oh my, and then there was one.

I commented a while back that I was having difficulty fully deciphering what Ron Paul was doing, but that he had read Sun Tzu and understood him.

This puts a new light on things - the comment and the events combined suggest a much deeper game is being played beneath the surface. I still don't have enough data to pin things down, but there are actions and players we are not seeing. Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry interesting.

This would seem to imply that there are other datums to be known, and other players whose actions are not yet in the public domain. I can't name them but the pattern of events suggests their existence.

"Up Watson! The game is afoot." - Sherlock Holmes in "The Red Headed League"

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-02-21   19:35:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Original_Intent (#24)

This would seem to imply that there are other datums to be known, and other players whose actions are not yet in the public domain. I can't name them but the pattern of events suggests their existence.

Good analysis.


Why do we fall sir? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. -- Alfred, Batman Begins

farmfriend  posted on  2008-02-21   22:47:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: farmfriend (#25)

Thank you kindly Ma'am.

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-02-21   23:19:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: robin (#0)

The lemmings, of course, are rushing to the defense of McCain against the attack from the evil liberals. Once again it becomes R vs D, policies be damned. Limbaugh, desperately yearning for McCain to throw him some kind of a bone, hopes this will motivate Mad Mac into becoming at least a little more critical of his pals in the corporate media. Meanwhile the country continues to go right down the crapper. More:

Rush, right rally to McCain

Rush Limbaugh, who has been critical of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), embraced him Thursday now that they have a common enemy: The New York Times.

Limbaugh and other conservative commentators rushed to defend McCain on Thursday against a potentially damaging article in The New York Times, embracing a maverick they have often attacked.

www.politico.com/news /stories/0208/8617.html

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BWS - Bush Worship Syndrome; a mental disorder that causes Iraq had WMDs and Saddam did 9/11 troofers to worship Bush no matter how much damage he does to conservatism, to the GOP, to the English language, or to the country. Rush "the doper" Limbaugh and Sean "the dope" Hannity are two examples of extreme cases.

Rich  posted on  2008-02-22   0:34:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Rich (#27)

Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail to Politico: “The story is not the story. The story is the drive-by media turning on its favorite maverick and trying to take him out. The media picked the GOP's candidate, the NYT endorsed him while they sat on this story and is now, with utter predictability, trying to destroy him.”

Limbaugh added: “This is what you get when you walk across the aisle and try to make these people your friends. I'm not surprised in the least that the NYT would try to take out John McCain. Predicted this, in fact, way back in the early 2000s. Sen. McCain courted the media, cultivated them, even bragged that the media was his ‘base.’ I cringed when I heard it because the media turning on McCain was as predictable as the sun rising in the morning.”

yeah sure, "the story is not the story" - look over here not at the facts.

'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.'
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.

robin  posted on  2008-02-22   0:41:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: robin (#28)

yeah sure, "the story is not the story" - look over here not at the facts.

That is Limbazoid's "go to" Play - divert and spin. It is truly amazing how many suckers fall for it every time. Gag! And these Dildoehead mistakenly think they are informed.

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-02-22   0:48:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: Original_Intent, robin (#29)

The media picked the GOP's candidate,

No, the media shilled for those who did though.


Why do we fall sir? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. -- Alfred, Batman Begins

farmfriend  posted on  2008-02-22   0:52:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: farmfriend (#30)

Precisely, and just as important refused to cover those, such as Ron Paul, who were to be suppressed.

"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken

Original_Intent  posted on  2008-02-22   0:56:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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