NOTE

In our August 4 issue, we reported that congressman Jim Leach saw private investigator Jack Palladino near Mr. Leach’s house one evening in 1994. At the time we published our story, our sources were confident of this information. Mr. Palladino has now written to Mr. Leach and to THE WEEKLY STANDARD denying that he was ever near Mr. Leach’s home or that he ever investigated Mr. Leach. Mr. Leach has written back that he accepts Mr. Palladino’s disclaimers, and, accordingly, so do we.