BOB NOVAK, My Leak Case Testimony - Cites Who's Who as source

The Drudge Report ^ | july, 11,2006 | drudge

[blogblogginaway]

BOB NOVAK, My Leak Case Testimony: 'I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in 'Who's Who in America'... MORE Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue... MORE... My primary source has not come forward to identify himself... Bill Harlow, the CIA public information officer who was my CIA source for the column confirming Mrs. Wilson's identity. I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in 'Who's Who in America'... I answered questions using the names of Rove, Harlow and my primary source... I considered his wife's role in initiating Wilson's mission, later confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, to be a previously undisclosed part of an important news story. I reported it on that basis.

[bcsco]

Danke! Bump for later.

[Peach]

Gotcha. Thanks, CT.

[STARWISE]

Not really new stuff .. Fred says: "no leak, no conspiracy" and Brit reiterates to tune in tomorrow.

[mass55th]

"I have revealed Rove's name because his attorney has divulged the substance of our conversation, though in a form different from my recollection. I have revealed Harlow's name because he has publicly disclosed his version of our conversation, which also differs from my recollection."

Am I interpreting this as Novak saying that his recollections differ from both Rove and Harlow? So why is Libbey the one charged with perjury since obviously his recollection was different than Judith Miller's(?)?

[Peach]

I'll be glued to the television. We will need a live thread.

[onyx]

Oh my!

[onyx]

Indeed!

[syriacus]

MSM headline: Washington Post
Robert Novak Acknowledges Confidential Administration Sources

[FloridianBushFan]

But no one know who the primary source is. Almost everyone in here is saying that Novak has said that Joe Wilson is the primary source. Novak has said no such thing. He won't reveal who the primary source is.

Novak learned that it was Joe's Wilson's wife who sent him on the trip from the primary source and then learned that the wife's name was Valarie from Joe Wilson's Who's Who's In America bio.

But no where has Novak said that Wilson is the primary source. We might not find that out tomorrow night.

[Jack Black]

Which is why this isn't and has never been a story. How can you commit a crime by telling a reporter what is part of the public record?

It was not in the public record that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA. It was not in Who's Who. The fact that Joe Wilson's entry stated his wifes name doesn't mean anything. The person who "outed" Valerie is not the editor of Who's Who or Joe Wilson in providing the Who's Who entry because it was not her marraige to Joe Wilson that was (supposedly) covert !!

It is the still unrevealed SOURCE #1 of Bob Novack who said: Joe Wilson was sent by his wife who works for the CIA . If there was a crime in revealing Vals status it was committed by SOURCE #1. All that we know is that 1) It is not Carl Rove and 2) It is not the CIA Information officer. and 3) The person was not a "political gunslinger" according to Novak. 4) but was government employee and 5) revealed the Plame occupation/identity inadvertently. Again, this is per Novak.

We also can surmise that because Fitz knows who SOURCE #1 is and did not charge him that Vals status did not rise to that req'd for the "Foreign Intellegence Agents Identity Protection Act" threashold, which is high. Apparently it may not even have been secret enough to make her outing (even if inadvertent) something that SOURCE #1 could be charged with revealing classified information over. (That is a lower threashold for a less severe crime. It only requires that you know secret stuff, and fail to keep it secret. This is what Bill Kellor could be charged with.)

There is still a lot we don't know.

[Mr. Brightside]

Jeez! I find out from another thread that Joe Wilson is the one who outed his wife, but cannot comment on it because it is locked. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663945/posts

And I am sent to this thread whose original post does not even mention that fact.

Hard to get that facts here.

[cookcounty]

"So Fitzgerald's ridiculous claim that he was protecting "an important principle" by indicting Libby, and indeed his whole investigation, was nothing more than a pathetic, despicable smear job...."

It was pathetic how #1 HYPOCRITE Fitzgerald complained at the indictment press conference that good folk might not make themselves available for public service if they end up being treated as shabbily as Mr. Libby treated the poor Wilsons.

Of course, it never occurred to the Fitzdolt that treating Mr. Libby shabbily might have the same effect.

Making the accusation, then making no indictment was a very, very cheap shot. I wish there was a way for Scooter to sue the jerk.

[calcowgirl]

Joe Wilson
Ward Churchill
Cindy Sheehan

All the same playbook. Shameless opportunists.

[processing please hold]

Fitz is going to go down as the Mike Nifong of federal prosecutors.

But he and the press and the dims had two years of front page mud slinging, and character assassination. He should be brought up on charges, let that bastard do a frog march.

[tobyhill]

Chrissy is trying to pull the old he was right because of the confusion around the episode number.

[STARWISE]

Watching ... thank God, no one I know here rides the Blue Line. Hope everyone is OK .. smoke, no signs of flames, apparently went off the track somehow.

[Peach]

And sadly, so many uninformed people will believe the spitter.

[woofie]

"Ok Novak, spill the beans..."