[cyncooper]

From the article:

The third subpoena repeats an informal Justice Department document request to the White House last fall seeking records about staff contacts with Novak and two Newsday reporters, Knut Royce and Timothy Phelps, who reported on July 22 that Plame was a covert agent and Novak had blown her cover.

This refers to the article I remembered. It was Newsday, if I recall, who first reported Plame was undercover. Novak identified Plame as a "CIA operative".

I'll bet Newsday knows exactly who is behind the Wilson/Plame story.

[mabelkitty]

So does Novak - it Bush or anybody in the Administration was involved, you know they all would have screamed it from the rooftops by now.

I'm thinking it was Mueller or Tenent, or perhaps a Clintonista. Too quiet on the Bush-hater front to be anybody but a friend to the media.

[Dolphy]

I'll bet Newsday knows exactly who is behind the Wilson/Plame story.

I have thought this all along...they are responsible for taking any mystery out of Novak's reference and actually outing Plame. One of the two Newsday journalists also has a history with Iraq, going back to the first Gulf War and allegations that the US refused to listen to Saddam's offer for last minute negotiations.

[Shermy]

1. Who linked these items to Newsday? Isn't this itself a violation of law?

2. Notice how the article underplays the Newsday angle. They don't mention that "intelligence officials" leaked to them. Are these people being investigated? What about the CIA official Novak quoted?

3. I assume the reportage is selective, nevertheless there's interesting things there. One, the Gerald Ford party. Did Novak attend? Was this where he had the "long conversation" with a "senior administration official" who told him? Note the Greenspan angle too, remember the rumors about Andrea Mitchell? Was this some boozy table-talk banter?

4. The Ari Fleischman conference. Did he blurt it out?