It's hardly splitting hairs Wonder Boy. Novak self rationalized something partisan Republicans would have condemned any other reporter for doing. The CIA don't blow their own agent's cover so couldn't do more than what they did. Novak has always been a partisan player, this time it at the very least clouded his judgement.

Novak doing legal wrong was something G-man threw in, not me. If G-man had a basis for saying it, I'll ask again what was the basis for it?

Fair play!