EDWARDS FUNDING RIELLE's ATTACK EX AIDE CLAIMS

Ex-John Edwards loyalist Andrew Young who is battling "Johnny'" mistress in court knowsWHO's really behind the attacks on him.

"I think John Edwards is telling Rielle Hunter and Elizabeth whatever he needs to tell them to make them do whatever he wants them to do," Young declared on  The Early Show today.

Young charged that Edwards, a former trial lawyer and disgraced two-time Presidential loser, was paying for Hunter's lawsuit against him to recover a steamy sex tape of the the couple.

"I don't know how she's paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for lawyers to put me through my paces for three weeks," he said.

"I can't think of anyone who would do it other than him."

The ENQUIRER was the first to report Edwards may behind the legal smear campaign against Young who testified before the Federal Grand Jury investigating the former Senator's misuse of Presidential campaign funds.

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