Yep. The dems thought this one through and see no down side for themselves, so they run with it. There is NO WAY Novak will reveal his source, and without his cooperation, I don't think the FBI will find *Proof* of the leaker's identity.
So long as nobody gets charged, the dems will cry their shrill screams of "COVER-UP"!!!!!!!!!! And then, if somebody does get nailed, they will spew venom against the disgusting partisan behavior so low as to compromise National Security. Its sickening to watch when it happens to us, but, in all honesty, I think republicans would be exploiting a similar situation against the dems.
Using the word "leak" for this case is playing the Dem's game.
There is no credible evidence here that anybody "leaked" anything.
Novak himself says that the information that Plame worked for the CIA came in an incidental, offhand way while Novak was pursuing the question of how Wilson was chosen for the role of "investigator" of the Niger/yellowcake story.
Such a conversation does not constitute a "leak," in the sense in which Wilson and his Dem cohorts so stridently insist.
The Dems would have us believe that "the White House" was calling up every Tom, Dick and Harry and screaming "Plame is a CIA agent," out of revenge for Wilson's perfidy.
This is not what happened with Novak, and there is no credibility to Wilson's fish tale that it happened with other reporters either.