[ClearCase_guy]

The fact that Novak did not state she was a 'covert' operative is utterly meaningless.

Depends on what the meaning of "is" is.

[Mo1]

ping

[muawiyah]

"operative" is a figure of speech; "covert operative" is an occupation.

Corn is covering up something really damaging here ~ maybe Valerie herself told him.

[the_daug]

"At this point," he adds, "her cover--whatever it might have been--was blown to bits. The fact that Novak did not state she was a 'covert' operative is utterly meaningless. (Does the CIA employ non-secret 'operatives'?)"

I thought, Novak asked the CIA first; Hum .... Must have been meaningless to the CIA too.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

David Corn belongs here!

[TexasCajun]

Another must read:

The Case of the Missing Crime

[bray]

Lady on CSPAN, "David Corn sounds like two toilet seats flapping together."

Novak never said she was covert just that she worked in some dept there. The CIA never said she was covert. Only Corn did to pump the story up and damage the President for leaking "sensitive" information. He is the one who first claimed covert which she wasn't. She was as covert as the janitors.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[windchime]

Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame?  National Review  Clifford May  7-15-05   The first reference to Plame being a secret agent appears in The Nation, in an article by David Corn published July 16, 2003, just two days after Novak’s column appeared. 

[msnimje]

Who was YOUR source David???

[Tallguy]

Who to believe? Victoria Toensing or David Corn? Oh wait! That's not much of a choice. A lawyer with a good reputation vs. a 'journalist' with an agenda (& book profits to worry about).

[Doc Savage]

Never saw so much made about nothing.

[norwaypinesavage]

Methinks David Corn doth protsesteth too much.

[Beckwith]

Corn is at the top of the list of sleazy dhimmicratic press operatives.

[mrsmith]

Corn should throw his golf bag in his SUV and go looking for the "real leakers"...