[Chi-townChief]

"I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in Who's Who in America."

Sounds like Wilson should get his ass frog-marched in front of a judge.

[IrishMike]

...Joe DNC operative Wilson,
who would have guessed ?(sarc!)

[RandallFlagg]

I'd rather the lying traitor get frog-marched out of the country. Forever.

Way to go, Karl!!!

[hershey]

Last night the MSM sniffed that Novak was trying to resurrect his failed career. Not a word about Joe Wilson, etc..

[The G Man]

Presidential adviser Karl Rove talks with columnist Robert Novak at a party celebrating the 40th anniversary of Novak’s column in June 2003. Rove’s button reads, “I’m a source, not a target.” (AP)

CLASSIC!

[kempster]

Didn't he (Wilson) make a fortune on a book about this matter?

[Izzy Dunne]

Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue.

I guess you just can't believe what you read in the papers...

[AmishDude]

A lot of things here:

• I seem to recall Novak saying that he would reveal his source's name.
• In essence, you are right CtC, the primary leaker was Joe Wilson. The primary source only mentioned the wife and, it seems, almost off-handedly.
• I hate the smugness of journalists and their claims to additional rights. No one has the right to an anonymous source. The first amendment has to do with the right of free speech from reprisals when one expresses oneself publicly.
• I wonder what the substance of the "differed from my recollection" was all about. And doesn't Novak record his conversations?

[Sharkfish]

Although I gleefully followed the DUmmie FUnnies recount of Fitzmas/Hoaxmas and the non-indictment of Karl Rove, I haven't really followed the whole Plame-Gate story very closely because I considered it so much B.S. So let me see if I have this straight - A CIA agent, Plame, who may have been covert at one time but wasn't at any pertinent times to this affair, pushed to get her husband ,Wilson, appointed to a mission to Niger to investigate whether Saddam tried to buy yellow cake. Wilson, a now well-known political activist for the left, finds nothing to the yellow cake claim (after thorough investigation conducted from his hotel lobby). (Side note-Brit intel stands behind the yellow cake claim).

When Novak revealed that Plame was Wilson's wife and a CIA agent, people got their panties in a wad because you can't reveal a CIA agent's identity, so Novak's source broke the law. Only Plame wasn't covert at the time so no law was broken. But Scooter Libby, Cheney COS, was indicted because he allegedly lied to the special prosecutor who was investigating the non-crime. Now Novak's article confirms that Rove was a corroborating source, as the prosecutor already knew and didn't consider significant. But is it news that Wilson outed his own wife? I've been hearing this for a while. Somebody set me straight on this and other pertinent details. Thanks

[cartan]

Hm, I guess I still don't get it. Mr. X revealed that Wilson's wife is a CIA agent, apparently without mentioning her name. Mr. Novak then looked her name up in Who's Who.

So, if anyone “leaked” anything here, then what was leaked is the information that Wilson's wife, whatever her name, was a CIA agent. So, the leaker isn't Wilson but Mr. X, and we're none the wiser.

[Erik Latranyi]

It is unfortunate, that this matter has resulted in a circus over a non-issue.

The truth here is that the yellowcake assertion still has merit and that Joe Wilson was sent by his wife on a political mission, not a fact-finding mission.

[conservativehusker]

When I got up this morning this is the headline on Yahoo Home page: "Novak: Rove was a source in outing Plame"

No bias here!!!

[rhombus]

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.

The Rats will go nuts over "a form different from my recollection." Also I heard on the local news radio station (a CBS affiliate) that Novak revealed the source of the leak...it was Rove. That's all they said, nothing about Wilson, nothing about a still unknown "primary source". But then they had to move on to cover more important things like sports, weather and traffic reports. ;-)

[newnhdad]

Too bad the AP is running "Rove is the source in outing Plame" headline without a mention of the actual "who's who" entry..

These people are pathetic.

[RavenATB]

I can't wait to see Coulter's next editorial, assuming this is the topic.

[grb]

"I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in Who's Who in America."

Now we know why no one has been indicted for outing Valerie. No indictment because they couldn't indict anyone in the Bush Administration.

[bray]

The Dinosaur press will begin attacking Novak as a Rove flak and this is no big deal. Meanwhile they leak national secrets about Swift Bank as if we needed to know for some unknown reason.

Motto of The Old York Times: If Bush Bleeds, It Leads.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[BadAndy]

Novak is trying to be cute. He still will not release the name of the primary source. The only thing he got from Wilsons entry in who's who is his wife's name, not her occupation.

[pleikumud]

Plame is having an affair now with James Bond.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Fitzgerald has been trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I predict that he will not convict anyone.

[Red Badger]

Let's summarize:

1. The "Primary Source" is a Whitehouse official.

2. The "Primary Source" is NOT a political "gunslinger".

3. The "fact" that Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA was "inadvertantly" revealed in a conversation. I.E, "Hey, you know his wife works for the CIA."

4. Novak looked up the name of the wife in Who's Who. ...........