Sorry but I won’t shed a tear for him. He let this whole Valerie Plame fiasco go by and ruin peoples lives knowing that it was Richard Armitage who first leaked her name. Patrick Fitzgerald is another one I won’t weep for. Armitage either.
That didn't take long.
Stay classy... /sarc
That episode will sadly always be raised when
his name is mentioned, even though he had a
uniquely fine reputation for decades before.
Folks conveniently leave out the fact that drama
and fiction king, US Atty Patrick Fitzgerald, urged
Novak’s silence on the subject. So did Novak’s
attorney, so a whole panoply of speculation grew
around him and his connection in that vacuum, when
the authentic filthy, cowardly scum of the incident,
Colin Powell and Richard Armitage, escaped unscathed.
We won’t forget you two bass tards.
God rest your soul, Mr. Novak. You were true to
your convictions and fearless in the face of power.
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Q: Let’s talk about the Valerie Plame affair, which caused you so much grief. If you had it to do over again, would you reveal who she was?
A: If you read my book, you find a certain ambivalence there. Journalistically, I thought it was an important story because it explained why the CIA would send Joe Wilson — a former Clinton White House aide with no track record in intelligence and no experience in Niger — on a fact-finding mission to Africa.
From a personal point of view, I said in the book I probably should have ignored what I’d been told about
Mrs. Wilson.
Now I’m much less ambivalent. I’d go full speed ahead because of the hateful and beastly way in which my left-wing critics in the press and Congress tried to make a political affair out of it and tried to ruin me.
My response now is this: The hell with you. They didn’t ruin me. I have my faith, my family, and a good life. A lot of people love me — or like me. So they failed. I would do the same thing over again because I don’t think I hurt Valerie Plame whatsoever.
Q: You saw up close what it’s like to be the subject of so many news stories. Has this changed the way you view the journalistic profession?
A: I thought the journalistic community was terrible to me — even members of the Gridiron Club, which is supposed to be a band of brothers and sisters. I thought one of the worst columns written on the Plame affair was by William Safire. He wrote a stupid column saying I should reveal the name of my source. He wanted to get his colleague at The New York Times, Judy Miller, off the hook with the prosecutors.
He didn’t know, as I knew, that my source, Richard Armitage, had long before identified himself to the FBI and the Justice Department. But my attorneys advised me to keep silent about the whole affair.
http://townhall.com/columnists/RobertNovak/2008/11/20/pray_for_me?page=full&comments=true
Rest of the article is very enlightening and informative.