So everything works as long as you take Novak's word over Harlow's & anyone elses. Harlow's motive to lie would be???

Tenet was the head honcho at the CIA at the time & I don't think it's reasonable that Novak somehow expects the head of the CIA to take his valuable time just to emphasize the seriousness of their request not to use Plame's name. If Novak was a partisan liberal columnist, that rationalizing honestly wouldn't fly with me.

Fair play!