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Matter-eater Man said:
G-man I was talking about Novak ignoring the CIA's request not to disclose Plame's name. You basically changed that to
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I think a colorable argument could be made that its smearing someone to insist they broke the law when every indication is that they didn't.



Novak wasn't being accused of breaking a law, so why were you saying it?



As Novak made clear in the Meet the Press interview, there are many who say to Novak "you can't print that", to try and save their asses from the facts. But Novak, in his own words runs the story anyway.

In the case of running Plame's name, nothing was said to him at the time that she was a covert field agent. If it had been said (in Novak's own words) he would not have run the story. But no one said she was. Then and now, Novak is convinced she is not, and never was, a field agent. And that even if she was, she was outed a long time ago, before his column named her.

Watch the interview, it explains everything you're denying.