I feel put upon here. The only reason I turned to her is that she had interrupted me twice. DiGenova later acknowledged he had no confirmation of any private-eye activity before making the charge on national television. He's far too sophisticated a lawyer for that. I thought there must be some other motive involved, like self-promotion.
Friends have a different take.
He does have thick skin. If this was just about gathering information on him, he would have laughed about it. But when you're told someone is trying to silence you by gathering information about your spouse, you react differently. Of course even paranoids have enemies. The White House flatly denied that diGenova and Toensing were the subject of any inquiry.