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Dan FrisaWednesday, Oct. 1, 2003Novak giveth and Novak taketh away. That?s the long and short of the so-called ?scandal? trumpeted by the Left and promoted by the lamestream media. After all, it was the Novak column of July 14th that instigated this affair. If that report was valid enough to instigate this flap, then why isn?t his clarification, that no one from the White House called him and that Wilson?s wife is neither an agent nor a covert operative, good enough to end it? Well, ordinarily it would be ? but for the insatiable, breathless desire of Democrats and...

They begin, invariably, without much fanfare. The Paula Jones saga began with a story in a London newspaper about Bill Clinton’s “sexual peccadilloes” written off by the American media for weeks as typical Fleet Street scandal mongering. Iran-Contra, the tangled affair that bedeviled the last two years of Ronald Reagan’s tenure, started with the otherwise unremarkable crash of a small plane over Nicaragua that turned out to be an illegal CIA gunrunning operation. For President Richard Nixon, of course, it all began with a “a two-bit burglary” at a hotel called The Watergate. FOR THREE YEARS now, the Bush administration...