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... reliable sources informed ABC news today. The FBI, after being notified about this, has reportedly initiated a probe into possible profit motives, including whether Novak could have benefited from subsequent Iraq war news coverage. Friends close to the long-time political commentator have said privately that he was pressured into retiring immediately by officials in the bentonite industry, who demanded that he falsely leak the brain tumor story in order to cover his false leaking of the bentonite story. However prominent neuropathologists consulted by ABC news dispute this account, pointing out that outward manifestations have been consistent with his having had a brain tumor for years.
