[jw777]

i can't understand why he isn't the responsible party here and even if he isn't why he hasn't been forced to give up his source or go to jail, like miller! after all, it is Novak, who published the name PLAME. No one knew anything of her outside the beltway, till then.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

No Republican serving in any official capicity can EVER shed light on the Wilson’s motives or affiliations. This would provoke cries of “retaliation” by the left and the media. The shackles on the administration are permanent. Only a respected member of the “mainstream media”can set the record straight. That person is the columnist who started at the center of the probe, Robert Novak.

. . . Novak, despite his conservative perspective is well respected journalist with a column in the mainstream press, a broad readership, and near celebrity status. Mathew Cooper and Judith Miller have incesantly told their stories in print and electronic media. Novak has an opportunity or even “duty” to give the world the picture it’s not getting, and cap off nearly 50 years of distinguished journalism. Please, Mr. Novak, go do it.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

You are buying a con. The First Amendment doesn't say that members of the press are objective - it says that they can't be prosecuted even if the government can prove they are not objective.

The First Amendment also doesn't say that "journalists" are coextensive with "members of the press." Consider:

• book publishers are protected members of "the press" irrespective of the deadlines they work under - or don't work under, and

• broadcast journalists are subject to licensing requirements which are incompatible with First Amendment freedom.

The irony of journalism is that many people take journalism's reports as dispositive even though journalists claim to be objective. Objectivity is a virtue, and anyone who claims a virtue - and argues politics on the basis that they have that virtue - is arrogant.

[KC Burke]

Thaks for the townhall link. I think I only saw part of that column.

Now that the forger states he was paid by France, Wilson's ex-wife's strange status as a former French government employee and many other things are now on the table, I hope Novak strings this whole stringer of stinking fish together and lifts them out of the water for all to see.

[frankjr]

Maybe Novak wants to maintain the confidentiality of his sources (at least from the general public). If Libby's attorneys believe Novak has info that may help him, they can subpoena him.

[cubreporter]

Only a respected member of the “mainstream media”can set the record straight. That person is the columnist who started at the center of the probe, Robert Novak.



That's what I say. That's what Rush says.

[hoosiermama]

Didn't Kovak say he would tell us his source after the GJ reported....That we'd laugh.

Well.......tap ....tap.....tap....tap..........We're waiting.

[Anselma]

Re Novak in hiding- maybe he's been advised by his attorney not to speak out (yet?) and maybe there will be another, separate, criminal case, involving him as a witness.

Still, it's noteworthy that Novak was never mentioned in Fitz's perjury/obstruction charges, so can't we assume that it WASN'T Libby who "leaked" to him? I believe Novak said that, in essence. And we DO know that Novak was talking with the CIA about Plame, so maybe it was someone there who did and Novak can't talk about it yet.

It's got to be something legal holding Novak back, and not about the Plame "leak" directly- else he'd be selling his story. I just hope it isn't something that can trip up Dick Cheney.

[rcocean]

I'll take Novak over his critics any day of the week.

I just wish FNC would hire him.

I couldn't care less about the Phlame Affair. Fitzy found no criminal conduct in outing Phlame - just that Scooter didn't tell the whole truth to the Grand Jury.

[ladyinred]

Does anyone you know who is not a regular Freeper or reader of NRO have any perspective other than that of the mainstream press? The answer is probably “no.”

That is the case with almost all of the news! As much as I read here that the MSM is not listened to anymore, the real people in my life still believe everything they say.

[Lancey Howard]

Good post.
I too have been wondering when Novak is going to live up to his promise to tell all.