Robert Novak,Traitor to His Country;Traitor to His Professio

Alterman obviously has lost all sense of perspective. I am sure he wishes he ahd broke the story instead of Novak. What a whiner.

His is an interesting perspective. I wonder if he feels the same way about the NY Times and how they leak critical information?

Don't you know that only the NYT can publish classified material? If someone who isn't liberal does it then that is a big no no in their book. I don't know how many stories have been leaked and how much of or tracking abilities have been harmed it was ok for the liberal media to do it. They have asked that Novak be shot or put into jail. If Cheney did leak the name then that is bad because he is Cheney. When the liberal media leaks things and it is from "anonymous" sources then don't you dare look for them because the press has the right to keep that stuff secret, they just don't have to keep the real secret stuff secret that is fair game.

Bumble Bee, if there was a crime here, why hasn't Fitzgerald filed charges? He's been on this for 2 1/2 years for crying out loud. And if Plames employment at the CIA was so secret, why did Harlow confirm she worked there to begin with? And if she was covert, then why not tell Novak? How else is Novak supposed to know she is covert if she was?

This story gets more bizarre as it goes. Bumble bee, give it up, the story is not going to go anywhere, never was, and never will. The next big move for the Wilson's appetite for fame is to write books and file the stupid lawsuit.

Novak Memoir: Armitage Wanted Plame Named
Another example of scumbag Novak's self-serving lies to sell books.
---BBB

Novak Memoir: Armitage Wanted Plame Named
Robert Novak
By E&P Staff
Published: July 08, 2007

CHICAGO - When Richard Armitage told columnist Robert D. Novak that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA, both men understood without saying a word that the deputy secretary of state wanted to see the information appear in the nationally syndicated column, Novak writes in his new memoir, which was excerpted Sunday in the Chicago Sun-Times.

In an excerpt from the first chapter of "The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting In Washington," Novak portrays the meeting as a series of nudge-nudge, wink-wink exchanges in which the rules and goals were unstated, but unmistakable.

Novak famously remained silent -- and in no apparent legal trouble -- while the nation speculated about the source of leak, two nationally prominent journalists were threatened with imprisonment for refusing to disclose the source of their reporting on Plame, and New York Times reporter Judith Miller eventually spent 85 days in jail.

In his memoirs, Novak repeats his explanation that he stayed silent at the request of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, and because of "the journalist's code" to protect sources.

"After Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago named as a special prosecutor in the case, indicated to me he knew Armitage was my source, I cooperated fully with him," Novak writes. "At the special prosecutor's request and on my lawyers' advice, I kept silent about this -- a silence that subjected me to much abuse. I was urged by several friends, including some journalists, to give up my source's name. But I felt bound by the journalist's code to protect his identity."

But Novak also says that there was no explicit agreement with Armitage when the two met July 7, 2003.

"Neither of us set ground rules for my visit," he writes. "I assumed, however, that what Armitage said would not be attributed to him but would not be off the record. That is, I could write about information he gave me but would not identify him by name. During a long career, I had come to appreciate that sort of thing in countless interviews without putting it into so many words. I viewed what Armitage told me to be just as privileged as if he had made me swear a blood oath."

Similarly, when Novak asked Armitage why Plame's husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, was asked to investigate claims, later refuted, that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Africa, the signal to print the item was done in an understood Washington insider's code, the memoir says.

"Armitage smiled and said: 'That's real Evans and Novak, isn't it?'" Novak writes. "I believe he meant that was the kind of inside information that my late partner, Rowland Evans, and I had featured in our column for so long. I interpreted that as meaning Armitage expected to see the item published in my column."

The topic of Plame's CIA employment took "no more than 60 seconds" of the meeting, Novak adds.

"Prince of Darkness," published by Crown Forum, a division of Random House Inc., will be released officially on Tuesday.

How do you know he is telling a lie?

Were you at the meeting also?

woiyo


Novak has a long history as a world class liar and of interpreting other people's unspoken intentions that serve his mission of media mouthpiece for the Republican Party. His claims about Armitage's intentions are contrary to Armitage's under oath testimony and description of events.

BBB

Re: woiyo


So you were not there. You can not know if he is telling the truth or not. Maybe Armitrage lied under oath.

Re: woiyo


Novak only changed his story about 5 times on what happened. He doesn't have any credibility at all.

Cycloptichorn

Then get the great Fitz to indict him for perjury, cyclops.

Yeah, I'll make a phone call and get right on that

Cycloptichorn