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Rick Perry flatly denied leaking the story of Herman Cain's alleged incidents of sexual harassment even as the Cain campaign intensified accusations that the Texas governor was responsible.

"Well, we found out about these allegations at the same time I suppose everyone else did - read about them online and our campaign had absolutely nothing to do with it," Perry said Wednesday night in an interview with the conservative blog Red State. "I'm disappointed that there's finger pointing going on, and the sooner that we back to talking about the issues that are important to the people of the country, the better."

Perry left little room for equivocation, saying that the campaign had no knowledge of the allegations before they became public on Sunday.

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