[ontos-on]

Wait a minute. The headline says Novak says no one at WH called him. But the story says that he was interviewing a an administration offical. Is the point that "WH" does not equal 'administration"; ie. Administration may include WH but does not necessarily include WH.

Now I just heard Fred Barnes says that no one in WH toold him the info about the wife.

[alnick]

Wait a minute. The headline says Novak says no one at WH called him. But the story says that he was interviewing a an administration offical.

The accusation against the White House was that a WH official was calling journalists leaking the identity of a covert CIA operative. The implication was that the WH shopped this info to six journalists, and Novak printed it.

Novak says that the WH didn't contact him, that he contacted them and that the woman was not a covert operative but an analyst.