Novak: My role in Plame leak probe (LEAKER = JOE WILSON ???)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 12, 2006 | ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

[Chi-townChief]

"I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in Who's Who in America."

Sounds like Wilson should get his ass frog-marched in front of a judge.

[IrishMike]

...Joe DNC operative Wilson,
who would have guessed ?(sarc!)

[RandallFlagg]

I'd rather the lying traitor get frog-marched out of the country. Forever.

Way to go, Karl!!!

[hershey]

Last night the MSM sniffed that Novak was trying to resurrect his failed career. Not a word about Joe Wilson, etc..

[The G Man]

Presidential adviser Karl Rove talks with columnist Robert Novak at a party celebrating the 40th anniversary of Novak’s column in June 2003. Rove’s button reads, “I’m a source, not a target.” (AP)

CLASSIC!

[The G Man]

[johnny7]

Lets hook him up with Bill Burkett... then we do Cooper & Miller with RATher & Mapes. How about Richard Armitage with Lucy Ramirez?

[kempster]

Didn't he (Wilson) make a fortune on a book about this matter?

[Izzy Dunne]

Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue.

I guess you just can't believe what you read in the papers...

[IrishMike]

...Lets hook him up with Bill Burkett... then we do Cooper & Miller with RATher & Mapes. How about Richard Armitage with Lucy Ramirez?

THAT IS A PLAN.

[kempster]

From Amazon

The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir - Joseph Wilson

[shalom aleichem]

Well, it is actually Novak the bastard. I knew the second I saw his labeling of Wilson's wife as a CIA operative that he'd screwed up. That factoid was not needed for his story. The news items was How did a nut like Wilson get the gig to Niger? Well, his wife set it up for him. There was never any administration conspiracy to out the woman. The administration wanted to make clear that (a) Cheney did not send him and (b) Wilson was a fool who was then and there blasting the administration (and who was later found by the Senate to be lying through his teeth). Fair to fight back. But dumass Novak made himself the story, and caused a lot of needless trouble for many people.

[Lurker]

It's time to get Wilsons ass in that Grand Jury room and put him under oath.

L

[VA40]

The lastest AP article does not even MENTION Joe Wilson!

[AmishDude]

A lot of things here:

• I seem to recall Novak saying that he would reveal his source's name.
• In essence, you are right CtC, the primary leaker was Joe Wilson. The primary source only mentioned the wife and, it seems, almost off-handedly.
• I hate the smugness of journalists and their claims to additional rights. No one has the right to an anonymous source. The first amendment has to do with the right of free speech from reprisals when one expresses oneself publicly.
• I wonder what the substance of the "differed from my recollection" was all about. And doesn't Novak record his conversations?

[Sharkfish]

Although I gleefully followed the DUmmie FUnnies recount of Fitzmas/Hoaxmas and the non-indictment of Karl Rove, I haven't really followed the whole Plame-Gate story very closely because I considered it so much B.S. So let me see if I have this straight - A CIA agent, Plame, who may have been covert at one time but wasn't at any pertinent times to this affair, pushed to get her husband ,Wilson, appointed to a mission to Niger to investigate whether Saddam tried to buy yellow cake. Wilson, a now well-known political activist for the left, finds nothing to the yellow cake claim (after thorough investigation conducted from his hotel lobby). (Side note-Brit intel stands behind the yellow cake claim).

When Novak revealed that Plame was Wilson's wife and a CIA agent, people got their panties in a wad because you can't reveal a CIA agent's identity, so Novak's source broke the law. Only Plame wasn't covert at the time so no law was broken. But Scooter Libby, Cheney COS, was indicted because he allegedly lied to the special prosecutor who was investigating the non-crime. Now Novak's article confirms that Rove was a corroborating source, as the prosecutor already knew and didn't consider significant. But is it news that Wilson outed his own wife? I've been hearing this for a while. Somebody set me straight on this and other pertinent details. Thanks

[RandallFlagg]

I knew this pic would come in handy again.....

[cartan]

Hm, I guess I still don't get it. Mr. X revealed that Wilson's wife is a CIA agent, apparently without mentioning her name. Mr. Novak then looked her name up in Who's Who.

So, if anyone “leaked” anything here, then what was leaked is the information that Wilson's wife, whatever her name, was a CIA agent. So, the leaker isn't Wilson but Mr. X, and we're none the wiser.

[IrishMike]

....The lastest AP article does not even MENTION Joe Wilson!



Surprised ???

[johnny7]

Get his b*tch up there with'em.