CNN anchorman Wolf Blitzer revealed Saturday that he had his own "Deep Throat" inside the Clinton White House - a source who blew the lid off Mr. Clinton's then-secret affair with Monica Lewinsky.
But the CNN newsman didn't believe his tipster and decided not to report the story.
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Discussing the journalistic risks of relying on single sources like Woodward and Bernstein's famous Watergate leaker, Blitzer told WABC Radio's Mark Simone that he'd received his share of bombshell tips over the years.
"But my experience has been that if a story sounds too good to be true, it almost always is," the CNN'er explained.
He then recalled the lone exception.
"I had a source tell me that President Clinton was having an affair with a White House intern," said Blitzer.
His reaction at the time? "C'mon, give me a break," Blitzer recalled telling his "Deep Throat."
But the longtime anchorman said that his natural skepticism caused him to miss out on what could have been the biggest scoop of his career.
"That was the one case where it turned out to be true," he lamented to Simone.
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