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Novak already knew when he called Rove; Rove just said he had heard the same thing.
The CIA confirmed her employment to Novak when he called them. If the CIA reveals your employment over the phone, you are not covert. Period.
The whole investigation was a hoax, from the beginning. If they give you up over the phone, you aren't covert.
Who cares? Don't people have anything better to spend their time on? The investigation is over, move on, if the liberals want to waste their time on this, more power to them. This is one of those baffling nobody-cares issues that never dies because too many people are getting some kind of notoriety out of it that they crave.
Novak really is being cute on this. He gives up Rove because Rove's attorney talked about Rove's conversation with Novak to third parties but Novak won't disclose the name of his original source even though Novak has said that that source did the exact same thing that Rove's attorney did (i.e. talk to third parties about the source's off the record conversation with Novak). I guess the lesson is -- don't take any chances and don't talk to Novak anymore.
Egads....will someone put a bullet into this freaking story? It would be nice if the MSM would move on...after all isn't that the name of the organization they get their orders from - Move On?
Here's the deal:
1. Novak found out about "Wilson's wife" setting him up for the trip to Niger from a yet-unnamed source, who Novak repeats is NOT in the White House and NOT a political gunslinger. He goes on to say this source did not intend to "leak" anything.
2. Novak called Karl Rove for confirmation that "Wilson's wife" set up his trip and he did not go at Dick Cheney's request as he had told everyone.
3. Novak says Rove answered "oh, you know that too" while Rove told the investigators and the grand jury he said "oh, I heard that too."
4. Novak then looked up Joe Wilson in "Who's Who in America" and found his wife's name right there in print.
5. Novak called Harlow at CIA to confirm Valerie Plame worked there. Harlow confirmed.
6. Novak had his story and ran it.
Novak goes on to say that Fitzgerald already knew about all three of his sources before he was questioned by investigators or the grand jury. In other words, Fitz knew this whole story was a crock very early on, but carried on for two years anyway and spent millions of our dollars for nothing. And the whole "White House War on Wilson" and nefarious plot by Karl Rove to "retaliate" against Wilson by "outing" his wife was a complete fiction peddled by the Kerry campaign and bought by Matt Cooper, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the rest of the MSM.
Is Novak trying to get a job with the New York Times?
Any reporter who leaks information from the anonymous sources should be spit on for the human excrement they are.
Report the facts and who told them to them or shut the hell up.
These people went to college for this crappy writing and trashy information.
Could the AP have come up with a headline that was anymore bias?
Novak should keep his flap shut.
He goes on to say---and AP left this out---that he got Plames name from "Who's Who." Now, IMHO, that does NOT even qualify as a "source."
Oh for cryin in a beer...Novak getting desperate for some attention or something? It is LONG past time that this stupid PLame thing got put to bed.
Novak is a jerk. Just tell us who your source is and let the Country go on. He acts like this is Deep Throat when it is small potatoes. Come on Novak, clean up your mess!!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Novak will also be appearing on Brit Hume today at 6PM eastern.