"... I would do the same thing over again because I don’t think I hurt Valerie Plame whatsoever."
Probably true. But George Bush wasn't much helped by it. Of course, Richard Armitage is the real smelly turd in the whole affair.
So long, Bob Novak. You had your moments...
CIA confirmed her employment there to him over the phone. If CIA gives you up to a reporter over the phone, you are not covert.
>> “So they failed. I would do the same thing over again because I don’t think I hurt Valerie Plame whatsoever.”
Who cares about Plame. I do, however, care about Scooter Libby and the others in the Bush administration that Novak helped to screw by being a total self-serving prick during the whole affair.
Rest well, Mr. Novak. It’s appointed to every man once to die... and then the judgment. You don’t have to worry about what I, or anyone on earth, thinks about you any more. On the other hand...
The villains in this case are:
1) Armitage
2) Powell
3) Fitzgerald
4) Tie: Wilson & Plame
The rest were just doing their jobs. Libby stupidly lied to the FBI (but I’m not sure whether it was intentional or sloppy.)
IMO.
They both were responsible for having it published Vanity Fair, they bragged about her employment, then said some one outed’’ her. What creeps.
No, Valerie Plame wasn’t hurt by it. Neither was Richard Armitage [the source], nor his boss, Colon Powell [the grey eminence]. But “W” was, and I wonder if Noak thought at all of ‘Scooter’ Libby when he said that. I doubt it.
Bob, maybe you didn’t hurt Plame but you left the Bush Administration hanging in the breeze for many months, knowing damned well what your colleagues were reporting were fabrications if not outright lies. You knew the political hay being made but stood mute. You did the country a great disservice and let a good man take your fall. I’m sure you are too busy explaining yourself right now to worry about what I write but your legacy is ashes with me.
The entire Fitzgerald investigation was fraudulent.
Fitz knew the identity of the leaker from the very first day of his investigation. Armitage called him immediately and confessed it. He ordered Armitage and Powell to remain silent until he had completed his “investigation” (what exactly was he investigating if he already had the answer to the question?)
A year and a half later he jailed Libbey. He had tried to get Rove but settled for Libbey.
Armitage and Powell dishonored themselves by remaining quiet when it was obvious that they were going to bankrupt, crucify, and imprison an innocent man.
Novak also owed it to Libbey and his own honor to speak up while there was still time to help the man.
GW Bush owed it to him to set it right after the fact, and did not.
There is plenty of dishonor to go around, starting with Fitz and finishing with Powell and Armitage. What a disappointment Powell turned out to be.
If you go to work every day at Langley, you are and have been self "outed".
I loved you, Bob, so I agree: “The Hell with them.”
I like Novak. Good man.