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And Novaks' motive to lie would be...?


Novak is a partisan Republican columnist. He's devoted his life making money on protecting the Republican party while writing negatively about Dems. I believe there was a prior incident where he worked with Rove on a previous campaign (anyone remember particulars?)

Now what was Wilson & Plame's motive again?

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Not necessarily expecting Tenet to call him personally. But if Plame were truly an undercover agent and endangered, Novak should have gotten a phone call from someone in a supervisory capacity at the CIA.
That no one felt it important enough to call Novak and halt the story, that just speaks to the bogusness of the allegation her cover was blown.


Why do you say no one when Harlow has said he asked Novak repeatedly not to run the story? And did Novak say he was going to run the story to Harlow unless he was asked by somebody higher up not to?

So far we have multiple sources that directly contradict Novak. Unlike Novak's unamed sources, these actually have names attached to them. It really looks to me that Novak basically discounted anything he didn't want to hear & just did what he wanted anyway.

Fair play!