To: Pukin Dog
What Novak said was that nobody in the Bush administration called him to leak this. Somebody in the Bush administration could have leaked this to Novak in an interview, and Novak's statement could still be true, if that official had not called Novak.
To: aristeides
That would be too cute, I think.
268 posted on
09/29/2003 3:37:23 PM PDT by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: aristeides
What Novak said was that nobody in the Bush administration called him to leak this. Somebody in the Bush administration could have leaked this to Novak in an interview, and Novak's statement could still be true, if that official had not called Novak.The Washington Post reported today that an administration official told them on Saturday that two White House officials leaked the information to selected journalists. Now that is interesting since the White House is denying any knowledge of a leak. The article goes on to say that the controversy erupted over the weekend when administration officials reported that Tenet sent the DOJ a letter. And then goes on to say CIA officials approached the DOJ within a week of Novak's column.
The timing of all of this is suspicious to me. These are a bunch of disjointed official events, there is no natural momentum except that created by administration officials. (I can't link at the moment but this is all from Mike Allen's article in today's WAPO.)
319 posted on
09/29/2003 3:53:20 PM PDT by
Dolphy
To: aristeides; Pukin Dog; Mitchell
The latest report from Carl Limbacher
on the Bob Grant show at 6:50 pm EDT
is that Novak got his information from someone
in the CIA
thus the CIA is asking to have itself invesitgated.
348 posted on
09/29/2003 4:04:09 PM PDT by
Allan
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