The CIA leak (Latest From Novak)

townhall.com ^ | 10/01/03 | Robert Novak

[woofie]

Oh my God !!!! What shall we do ?!!! We need an investigation at the top and the bottom !!!or maybe the middle!!!!

[Steely Glint]

The vile Demonrats will stop at nothing to try and smear Bush.

[woofie]

You know it wasnt much of a secret when your hairdresser tells you in confidence that she heard Mrs Wilson worked for the CIA

[Jeff Chandler]

This smear should drop Bush's credibility with the voters another 10-15 points. A little lower and hillary can jump in the race.

[CobaltBlue]

So what's the bigger story here? Doesn't anyone still find it incredible that Wilson, a Bush hater, was given the task of vetting one of the most important allegations in Bush's State of the Union Address?

[YaYa123]

EXCELLENT CATCH!!! Thank you kattracks!

[Sabertooth]

Novak says it's a non-story, and it's his story.

Conduct the routine CIA leak investigation, and plant daisies on it

[YaYa123]

Over here, y'all. This is a good nightcap.

[Dialup Llama]

What form of rectal cranial inversion made Novak think it was OK to reveal the identity of CIA employees?

[Shermy]

Second, the CIA never warned me that the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency would endanger her or anybody else.

What do they have to say? They said don't tell - isn't that enough? Novak created this mess.

Also, this article might confirm the idea that the "leak" was from gabbiness, and an assumption Novak wouldn't tell. That is, saying the words "CIA" to Novak wasn't intended to do anything political.

[Chad Fairbanks]

PinG!

[america-rules]

What he doesn't say is Wison said two years ago Irag had the NUKE material using the same intel Bush and the CIA used before we took Saddam out !

[YaYa123]

Didn't you read his explanation? Here tis:

He asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause "difficulties" if she travels abroad.

He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name.

I used it in the sixth paragraph of my column because it looked like the missing explanation of an otherwise incredible choice by the CIA for its mission"

[WSGilcrest]

The stiff is froze, the case is closed.

[paul51]

However, an unofficial source at the Agency says she has been an analyst, not in covert operations

A little late for damage control

[swilhelm73]

This actually, it seems to me is key.

Bush's administration has turned the other cheek again and again in the face of Democrat dirty tricks, sometimes verging on treason.

This can go on no more. The press will not try to get to the bottom of how Wilson got the nod here - though there does seem some evidence of a planned smear from the get go.

So, the Bush White house *must* go public with this process, point out the anti-war loonies are willing to misuse even the CIA to futher their ambitions, and show how the Democrat's press work tireless for the Democrats.

If he doesn't the press will make sure that their is always some lingering doubt about this affair clouding Bush's reputation.

[jtill]

Unless I'm interpreting everything I read wrong, Wilson actually went to Niger in 2002 - BEFORE the President's SOTU Address. Then, when the question of the uranium came up after the SOTU, he leaked his own confidential/secret report to the press.

Everything I've read has 2002 as the year Wilson went to Niger, so unless all the articles have typos in them, he went months before the SOTU Address.

[Destro]

We Balkan posters WARNED (AND WE WERE THE ONLY ONES TO DO SO ON FREEREPUBLIC) Bush to cut ties off from Clintonista Balkan holdovers like Wilson. what was Bush doing keeping them on? The only bad thibg this reflects on the Bush White House is that they were stupid enough to keep these enemies in positions of authority.

[GWfan]

I think it's Tenet and he is gone.