If I may refer back to the NYT story on the Iraqi Oil-for-Food shocker, Kathryn Lopez mentioned that it was a “[Claudia] Rosett victory.” Yes, it certainly was.

However, at the risk of sounding immodest, I would like to think that I played a small, but vitally important, role in the downfall of the scheme and its subsequent exposure to public scrutiny. Was it not I, after all, who revealed to a stunned and amazed world the existence of the “Iraqi Oil-for-Food Spam Email” – which became the subject of a NRO Special Investigation and was nominated for a Pulitzer? (Michael Moore and I are currently discussing options).

The link is here.

No doubt you were only trying to protect my obscurity, Kathryn, but you must give credit where it is due.