Monday, January 9, 2012  Lance Armstrong Investigation:
LiveStrong Brought to Light  Outdoor Magazine published an
extensive article on Lance Armstrong's LiveStrong Foundation
today. I know they have been working on this for a while since
the author, Bill Gifford, first contacted me in May 2011.
Interestingly, I received several phone calls from investigative
reporters around the same time--undoubtedly because they found
these posts of interest.  As far as I can tell, Gifford's
article is the first one to hit the press. His article notes why
this may be the case by saying: At least two other major
publications have done serious reporting on Livestrong—that is,
they started to. In both cases, Livestrong lawyers succeeded in
shutting down the stories before they were published. They
applied the same pressures to Outside, blitzing my editors with
pissed-off e-mails, phone calls, and, eventually, a five-page
letter from general counsel Mona Patel complaining about “Mr.
Gifford’s conduct, professionalism, and meth