Where did Mr. Novak write there were lies in the report?
Besides, when you said "the story is", I figured you meant the entire story, not merely Novak's role.
At any rate, Wilson's story was that the CIA (implying with Tenet's blessing) sent him off and he further presented his story as a definitivie finding that Iraq was not seeking uranium in Niger and he said his findings surely would have been told to the WH (of course they were not). In Novak's first column he wrote (correctly):
Wilson's report that an Iraqi purchase of uranium yellowcake from Niger was highly unlikely was regarded by the CIA as less than definitive, and it is doubtful Tenet ever saw it. Certainly, President Bush did not, prior to his 2003 State of the Union address, when he attributed reports of attempted uranium purchases to the British government.
~snip~
Furthermore, after Novak correctly reported that Plame had a role in sending Wilson off Niger way Wilson has been denying it (even in the face of the memo she wrote surfacing).