Actually, I think he got dragged accross it, and maybe he's spinning, or maybe he's unspinning what it has become.
Although he has been critical of the administration's policies in Iraq and Israel,
Among other things, but that hasn't stopped dashole for one this morning calling him a total shill for the administration.
I'm sure he wishes he never said anything about the CIA, but I think he really was only was trying to get to the bottom of why a rabid anti-Bush partisan was given the assignment to Niger. That has yet to be explained in anyway that makes sense.
I wonder--but given that I wouldn't want to be spending a lot of time with the FBI or before a grand jury, or having to spend endless hours with lawyers (well, I do that already, but after a while, the droning is like background noise), Novak is probably reconsidering publishing her name.
I just moseyed over to the LA Times & they're already gnawing a big chunk of red meat on this story. This one's got about as much gossip as E!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scandal1oct01,1,1890560.story?coll=la-home-leftrail