A Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal US think-tank, has defended comments he made during an email exchange about Catholic involvement in American politics, saying that the scandal they have prompted is "fake."
A row erupted yesterday when a series of emails from 2011 were released via Wikileaks between Jennifer Palmieri, now Hilary Clinton’s director of communications and John Halpin, a former Democrat strategist.
Halpin said in the exchange: “Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the and think tanks to the media and social groups.
