Robert Novak reports that he has also been cleared in this case:

    Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has informed my attorneys that, after two and one-half years, his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to me has been concluded.

    Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue.


He also states that:

    For nearly the entire time of his investigation, Fitzgerald knew -- independent of me -- the identity of the sources I used in my column of July 14, 2003.That Fitzgerald did not indict any of these sources may indicate his conclusion that none of them violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.


Again, to date, despite allegations by the left, not a single person has been charged with "outing a covert operative," perhaps because, as Novak notes:

    I learned Valerie Plame's name from [husband] Joe Wilson's entry in Who's Who in America.


At what point will the media, if not the hard left, be forced to drop the fiction that Valerie Plame was outed?