Herman Cain’s staff spent the better part of Wednesday afternoon accusing Perry campaign aide Curt Anderson — by name — of tipping off Politico on their report that Cain had been accused of sexual harassment. But on Thursday, Cain aide Mark Block reversed himself on FOX News and said that he no longer believes Anderson was involved.Anderson had fiercely pushed back against Block’s earlier claim that he had been behind the leak. On Thursday he publicly asked any reporter who had allegedly talked to him to reveal whether or not he was the source for the Cain story. That denial was apparently good enough for Block.
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