The Novak Exception -- II

Wall Street Journal ^ | Mar 11, 2004 | editorial

[The Raven]

What a comedown. Back when Robert Novak's column naming Bush Administration critic Joe Wilson's wife as a CIA officer became the scandal flavor of the day, the air was thick with charges of "crime" and "felony." But today even Mr. Wilson's attorney has backed off those claims. In his letter to the editor here, the best Christopher Wolf can do is assert that naming Valerie Plame was "probably illegal."

[billhilly]

"And the road to that blow to a free press will be paved by all the liberal writers who thought they could discard Bob Novak with no effect on their own journalism."

That already happened when the American Spectator was investigated about alledged bribery of a federal witness. The mainstream press could have cared less, because it was a conservative publication on the hotseat.

If that case is any example, I can't see any effect on the press from their continued pursuit of Novak.

[thegreatbeast]

This is, of course, much ado about nothing. The only purpose for pursuing it is to wring out as much mileage as can be gotten out of it.

[WHBates]

What seems to be really crazy about this whole situation with this agent and how her spouse conducted his investigation into the document is that it definitely shows us how the agency missed the warning sings of 9/11. Is this the way they conduct all of there investigations?

[cricket]

Cannot understand how it is this issue got so 'out of control' with even the Bush camp issuing defensive statements to the press.

From the very 'get-go'; the Liberal tongues wagging, could have been clipped.