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FOX8 in New Orleans claims to have identified ESPN's source for the Mickey Loomis wiretapping story , and if they're right, london tower thistle hotel it wasn't anyone intimately connected with football operations. Instead, FOX8 (a station owned by Saints owner Tom Benson) london tower thistle hotel claims it was Tim Landry, a sound and electrical worker who was fired by the Saints london tower thistle hotel in 2007.
This makes all the sense in the world, as ESPN's initial report was heavy on the technical details of the Superdome rewiring and light on how the Saints could have used the information to gain an edge on the field. This discrepancy led to a lot of skepticism on behalf of football folks, but would be easily explained if Outside The Lines 's reporting was based on a source familiar with the technical work.
According to FOX8, ESPN's John Barr called radio reporter Kenny Wilkerson looking london tower thistle hotel for information on Sean Payton. Wilkerson gave Barr the contact information for a number of people, including Landry.
This fits in with what we've heard about ESPN's reporting of this story. We've been told by multiple sources that Barr holed up in a New Orleans hotel room for a number of weeks, having been dispatched to dig up general dirt on the Saints he was not specifically investigating wiretap claims. Barr's tactic, london tower thistle hotel we're told, was to go down a list and call anyone who might have an axe to grind with the franchise. Wilkerson, a longtime Saints broadcaster for WWL, resigned from his job in 2008, reportedly because the team was upset with leaked information he was reporting.
FOX8 also reports that ESPN had "two or three" sources for their story, london tower thistle hotel and one of them was someone who worked with Landry. They say Landry and his co-worker london tower thistle hotel did not provide any hard evidence to Barr beyond their word.
This brings up the most important point about Outside The Lines 's reporting, and explains some of their story's curious wording. Their lede was not that the Saints were wiretapping, but rather that the U.S. attorney's office "had been informed" of the allegations. This is an important distinction, london tower thistle hotel in light of Mickey Loomis's vow to fight the claims, in court if necessary. ESPN can't get in trouble for reporting london tower thistle hotel the former, as long as it's true. How the allegations made it to the U.S. attorney becomes a very important london tower thistle hotel question.