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Novak 'Probably' Regrets Plame Column
Broadcasting Cable. com ^ | 12/24/05 | John Eggerton

Posted on 12/28/2005 5:19:01 PM PST by summer

Abstract: In an interview on CNN's Situation Room Friday, Robert Novak said he "probably" regrets writing the column that revealed the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

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KEYWORDS: cialeak; novak; plame; regrets
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LOL...am I laughing? Probably...I can't decide! :)
1 posted on 12/28/2005 5:19:02 PM PST by summer
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To: Tribune7; cubreporter

I thought you would probably enjoy this news article...


2 posted on 12/28/2005 5:19:38 PM PST by summer
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To: summer

Flipping a coin, to bump or not to bump?


3 posted on 12/28/2005 5:21:17 PM PST by dighton
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To: dighton

LOL...


4 posted on 12/28/2005 5:21:29 PM PST by summer
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To: summer
He probably can't remember what it was about. lol. It's been three years? Just another manufactured "scandal" by MSM to trash the Bush administration. They proved it by not demanding an investigation of the latest CIA leaks about our NATIONAL SECURITY, not some desk jockey who attends cocktail parties with the beltway "reporters".
5 posted on 12/28/2005 5:23:57 PM PST by kcvl
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To: summer
He knows that the true story is eventually going to come out and his suggestion that administration officials were NOT the ones who tipped him to the story.

He was told NOT to print her name and did so anyway.

He ought to be indicted!

6 posted on 12/28/2005 5:26:25 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: OldFriend

Ooops. His suggestion tht it was administration officials is going to be NOT true.


7 posted on 12/28/2005 5:27:06 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: kcvl

You are probably right about him not being able to remember a thing. Has this guy (and others like him) never heard the word "retirement?" I am so tired of seeing him, Charlie Rose, larry King, and others. Is there no one under the age of 70 who can grace a television screen besides Anderson Cooper???


8 posted on 12/28/2005 5:27:19 PM PST by summer
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To: OldFriend

Maybe you're right! Probably! :)


9 posted on 12/28/2005 5:28:01 PM PST by summer
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To: summer

Novak always has been a gutless RINO pillow biter. Gee don't stand up and defend the truth Bob someone might get mad at you!!!


10 posted on 12/28/2005 5:28:25 PM PST by MNJohnnie (We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.--GWBush)
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To: summer

I probably wish that Novak would just shut up and go away.


11 posted on 12/28/2005 5:29:06 PM PST by The Phantom FReeper (Have you hugged your soldier today?)
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To: MNJohnnie

LOL...he really needs to find something else to do. Maybe a hobby of some sort?


12 posted on 12/28/2005 5:29:27 PM PST by summer
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To: The Phantom FReeper

ROTFLMAO...don't hold back, now! :)


13 posted on 12/28/2005 5:29:54 PM PST by summer
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To: summer

Novac is a back stabbing, two timing, journalist of the lowest order who's conservatism is feigned.


14 posted on 12/28/2005 5:31:44 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: summer

BLITZER: Let me read to you what you wrote, just to be precise. These were the sensitive words. "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife Valerie Plame is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him." Do you regret writing that story?

NOVAK: Well, it's a very interesting question. I probably do because it's caused me so much trouble. I don't think I did anything wrong, but as a practical matter, it wasn't a big scoop. You know, I think it was in the seventh paragraph of a 13-paragraph story or 11-paragraph story.

And so it was just a throw-away line. And the whole column was not abusive toward Joe Wilson in any way.

More at link ...


http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/networks/novak_says_goodbye_to_cnn_29935.asp


15 posted on 12/28/2005 5:33:20 PM PST by maggief
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To: summer

Novak appeared on CNN? I thought he was shown the door by that network. Apparently the old curmudgeon is still wanted by CNN.


16 posted on 12/28/2005 5:33:42 PM PST by DuckFan4ever (Happy New Year!)
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To: summer

He was for writing the article, before he was against it.


17 posted on 12/28/2005 5:35:58 PM PST by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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To: summer
In an interview on CNN's Situation Room Friday, Robert Novak said he "probably" regrets writing the column that revealed the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

You think?

18 posted on 12/28/2005 5:38:00 PM PST by A.Hun (Democrats suck worse than ice storms.)
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To: summer
Novak was fired by CNN and hired by FNC.

He'll continue to make trouble for this administration until he draws his last breath.

19 posted on 12/28/2005 5:38:44 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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You think the old SOB would at least tell us who told him.

I'm tired of guessing!


20 posted on 12/28/2005 5:40:24 PM PST by A.Hun (Democrats suck worse than ice storms.)
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