Well Jon Ward reports that Cain’s top advisor claims both:
The slugfest between Herman Cain and Rick Perry’s presidential campaigns continued into the night Wednesday. Cain’s campaign manager renewed charges that Perry’s team leaked a story about allegations of sexual harassment made against Cain in the 1990s.
“The American people deserve better than these underhanded tactics by the Perry campaign. And Rick Perry owes Mr. Cain’s family an apology. A desperate candidate is trying to steal the Republican nomination away from Mr. Cain,” Cain’s chief of staff Mark Block wrote in a memo to reporters.
But Block gave himself a bit of wiggle room by hedging on the claim. The Perry campaign “almost certainly
provided” the original story to Politico, Block wrote. In a Fox News interview on Wednesday afternoon, Block had said he was “absolutely” accusing Perry’s campaign of leaking the story to Politico, and said “the actions of the Perry campaign are despicable.”
