he’d been asking for, he told him.
Clapper agreed that this changed everything. The story now had
legs. But he decided he couldn’t take it on himself. For one thing, he
couldn’t shoulder the legal liability of going up against a $9 billion
Silicon Valley company with a litigious track record that was
represented by David Boies. For another, he was just an amateur
blogger. He didn’t have the journalistic know-how to tackle something
like this. Not to mention the fact that he had a full-time medical
practice to tend to. This, he thought, was a job for an investigative
reporter. In the three years since he’d launched Pathology Blawg,
Clapper had spoken to several about lab-industry abuses. There was
one in particular who came to mind. He worked for the Wall Street
Journal.