“Leak to me, baby! I don’t bite the hand that feeds me,” I once heard him gleefully say into the phone.
Don’t confuse integrity with self-serving mercenary ambition. Novak had the latter, in spades; not so much the former.
Novak didn’t care about the truth and didn’t care who paid the price in the Plame affair. Apparently his secret weapon rusted sometime before then. Or ran short of ammo.
You sir, are an ass.
NT, I have never understood how Nowak could stand by and see Libby skewered when he knew Scooter was NOT the leaker. And stand by when Plame and Wilson made a mockery of honorable government service in their lies to Congress.
Integrity? Not giving up the source?
Seems to me you don’t let an innocent man take a rap for something you KNOW he didn’t do.
A lot of what happened in the ‘06 elections was a result of him keeping quiet. We now live with the outcome of that.
I was not a fan of Nowak—he was OK in my book as a political reporter, but I didn’t think him special. Even on Crossfire I didn’t see him as a reliable conservative.
I’m sure he was a nice person and all, but a lot of damage to Bush, Cheney, Libby, the GOP and the truth could have been avoided if he exposed Armitage for the lying SOS he was. In his mid 70s at the time, Nowak had nothing to lose.
But he choose otherwise.
Granted he did not out his source but he was very clear that it was NOT from the White House.
Mr. Libby is a supposed wise man that the Vice-President selected to work for him. HOW could Mr. Libby get himself in a situation, that he was found guilty for lying about what he did or said and to whom he did or did not say?
Mr. Novak reported what he was told by trouble makers at the State Department. And we have never found out who hired Joe Wilson to get his wife to send him to Africa to stir up this mess in the first place. There is the villain in all this.
Please accept my apology. My previous post was not meant for you but for old curmudgeon.