Bob Novak: Coward at Large

PhxNews ^ | Paul Heller

[ctonious]

When I called the CIA in July, they confirmed Mrs. Wilson's involvement in a mission for her husband on a secondary basis

Well, there's a crime right there. "Neither confirm nor deny" I was always told - but the CIA just went ahead and CONFIRMED to an uncleared person the fact that she worked there. What gives?

[Clemenza]

I LOVE Novak, even when I disagree with him.

Frum is a twerp who should go back to Canada. I haven't heard of this idiot, but would like him to catch the next innertube to Castro's Workers Paradise.

[secretagent]

Besides.. Novak HAS SAID REPEATEDLY that his information DID NOT COME FROM THE WHITEHOUSE ~OR~ THIS ADMINISTRATION!!! So, once again.. I think it was WILSON himself could have been the culprit!

Novak, has said that he got the information from two senior administration officials - just that they didn't call him to leak it.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

I'm trying to find the original article or a source for this information regarding "two senior administration officials" do you have an article or anything?

Thanks in advance if you do.

[secretagent]

"In July I was interviewing a senior administration official on Ambassador Wilson's report when he told the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee
working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing. As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in
Washington I do not reveal confidential sources. When I called the CIA in July to confirm Mrs. Wilson's involvement in the mission for her husband -- he
is a former Clitnon administration official -- they asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a
confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operator, and not in charge of an undercover operatives..."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991708/posts

This FR thread leads with the statement from Novak that Drudge carried yesterday or the day before.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Thanks, appreciate.

I would imagine the Phone logs will reveal who this was.

[MHT]

Two questions:

1. Novak said it was not the White House, but an administration source (which could mean any of a million people in the Executive Branch). So why the specific probe of the White House, and not, say, the CIA?

2. Tenet has gotten a pass on 9-11, etc. He's a Clinton-holdover whose performance has been debatable at best. Who's to say that he or someone in his office is not the leak?