NOVAK: 'NOBODY IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CALLED ME TO LEAK THIS'

Drudge Report ^ | 09/29/03

[Pokey78]

In July I was interviewing a senior administration official on Ambassador Wilson's report when he told the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing. As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in Washington I do not reveal confidential sources. When I called the CIA in July to confirm Mrs. Wilson's involvement in the mission for her husband -- he is a former Clitnon administration official -- they asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operator, and not in charge of an undercover operatives...

[Chad Fairbanks]

Btttt... a Clinton Administration Holdover? OUCH! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA ahem. Sorry.

[Shermy]

Is this Novak's first draft? Reads like one.

[b4its2late]

Mr. Wilson!!!!!

[DittoJed2]

Ya beat me! Hope the Dems eat crow on this one. Wonder if they still want that inquiry?

[NYC Republican]

Btttt... a Clinton Administration Holdover? OUCH! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA ahem. Sorry

Isn't that what Rush predicted (or knew) just before he signed off today? Rush is awesome!

[b4its2late]

Wilson's got his 15 minutes of fame... Time for a book deal!

[Pokey78]

By an eyelash. hehe

Another DemocRat wish goes down the drain.

[Peach]

Read what Novak says about how he came by the information regarding Wilson's wife. Just released.

Says also Wilson's wife is NOT an operative for the CIA, but rather a more garden variety sort of analyst.

[woofie]

Mr. Wilson!!!!!

Dennis!!!!!!!!!!!

[John Jorsett]

Karl Rove made him say this ...

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991629/posts


Wilson: I Made Up Rove Leak Allegation
Newsmax.com ^ | 9/29/03 | Carl Limbacher


Posted on 09/29/2003 11:23 AM PDT by truthandlife


Former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson admitted Monday morning that he fabricated a key part of his allegation that the White House deliberately blew his wife's cover as a CIA weapons analyst.

Wilson has accused top Bush political strategist Karl Rove of leaking the name to columnist Robert Novak, telling a Seattle audience last month that he wanted "to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs."

But he told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday that he got "carried away" and made up the Rove allegation out of thin air.

"In one speech I gave out in Seattle not too long ago, I mentioned the name Karl Rove," Wilson told GMA. "I think I was probably carried away by the spirit of the moment."

Wilson then confessed, "I don't have any knowledge that Karl Rove himself was either the leaker or the authorizer of the leak."

Wilson insisted, however, "I have great confidence that, at a minimum, [Rove] condoned it and certainly did nothing to shut it down."

[Burlem]

If there was a leak at all, does anyone believe that it was a democrat?
I am doubtful that there was a leak per se' seems to me that everyone knew Mrs. Wilson was a CIA agent, she got her husband the job.

[ConservativeMan55]

I tried to listen to Rush over the internet today and it wouldn't let me. It kept saying that access is denied.
I am a 24/7 member.

[dandelion]

MUAHAHAHAHAHA!! The main story for the evening news just got BLOWN!

[Peach]

So this is why Schumer called off his press conference. hahahah

Both Novak and Wilson have backed away from the WHite House claim.

[woodyinscc]

It appears that the "esteemed" Mr. Novak has no intention of being associated, or taken down, with this now obvious rat operation. Look for the rats to mount big CYA spin!!

[Sacajaweau]

Tony Blair left this African connection ON THE TABLE, didn't he??

[Shermy]

In July I was interviewing a senior administration official on amb. Wilson's report when he told the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing.

That's quite a "comma." Yet again it's unclear - did a SAO tell Novak that she was a CIA agent? Novak is an experienced wordsmith, ya gotta read them closely.

When I called the CIA in July to confirm Mrs. Wilson's involvement in the mission for her husband

What, wifey wouldn't tell Mr. Wilson what she was doing? Novak intervening? IMO Novak is spinning, poorly, because he's pressed for immediate response. He might be trying to spin it to allow an anti-Admin interpretation - and Novak was "anti-war" as they come.

Or it could be an Admin. Source. But the first article clearly did not say that's who told Novak the lady was CIA. This statement is fuzzier.

[ctlpdad]

We will not see this first thing on Perky Katie's show tomorrow morning.