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.
>> 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.
That’s my view as well. These things fly in the face of that whole “legacy of truth and integrity” thing he’s got happening here.
I see Novak as having been a ruthless and ambitious but self-serving journalist — nothing more, really. Not that that’s altogether a bad thing. But the “conservative’s Conservative”? Not hardly. “Mr. Integrity”? Please.
It's a fair question. Somehow I don't think that Novak sold Scooter down the river just to protect a source. Washington politics is incredibly tangled: there's probably a lot more to the situation than any of us ever knew, and Novak has carried it with him to the grave.