GIVEN WHAT ESQUIRE HAS ACCOMPLISHED with its apparent DiIulio scoop, Daniel Drezner thinks that Maxim and Stuff should send reporters to the White House.

UPDATE: Now DiIulio says the quotes are fake. But at least in Maxim they’d be surrounded by sexy photos of Carmen Electra!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Patrick Ruffini is calling this “Esquire’s Bellesiles.” I think it’s a bit early for that, but it’s certainly going to make somebody or other look bad.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s DiIulio’s memo and here’s a letter by Esquire reporter Ron Suskind. Did nobody tape the earlier interviews?