The reporter CREATED a story by his silence, and his not revealing the complete story to head off a situation which the President refrained from interfering in until he did--which was precisely when he should have involved himself in the process.
Perhaps the president, not Novak, is the one responsible for whether he was involved or not.
And again, Novak did reveal plenty in at least four columns on the subject, even while he was still keeping silent about specifics — if you bothered to read any of it, which I doubt.
I agree. Even if Novak felt it was important to still keep the name of his source a secret, he SHOULD have told all the story he KNEW, which was that his source had talked to the prosecuter, and that his source WAS the primary leaker of the information, and that the PROSECUTER knew that.
If we had known in December of 2003 that Fitzgerald already knew who the leaker was, we could have put pressure on the White House to call him in and get the job done, and we wouldn’t have put up with it for two more years.