Norman: A source who may not be worth protecting (Plame Outing)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05179/529376.stm

The White House operative who blew CIA Agent Valerie Plame's cover to journalists Matt Cooper and Judith Miller was betraying the country, pure and simple.

Because we now live in an Alice-through-the-looking-glass universe that Lewis Carroll himself couldn't have conjured, two journalists are facing jail time for refusing to tell the Justice Department who divulged Plame's identity to them. Meanwhile, columnist Robert Novak, the only journalist to publish the tip, sits on the sidelines disappearing by the minute and grinning like an evil Cheshire cat.

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Though his body language says, "I would never do that," many of his colleagues believe he gave up the name of his source faster than a middle-aged virgin gives up her modesty on her wedding night. The most benign theory about Novak's silence is that special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald needs Miller and Cooper to confirm the name of the leak that he got from the columnist a long time ago.

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I'm so appalled by the lying that went into the planning and execution of this war that my resentment at the folks who brought us down this ruinous path has pretty much reached the boiling point. I would seriously consider giving the creep up, if only to see how the White House would handle that public relations disaster.

[RT_Fanatic]

1. I read this over my morning coffee,

and fired off an appreciative e-mail to Tony at the P-G.

Tony Norman has been a staunch critic of the *Bush regime since it usurped power in 2000. Drop him a line and urge him to keep up the good work!
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