Novak Recycles Gannon on 'Plame-gate'

[TacticalPeek]

Novak Recycles Gannon on 'Plame-gate'

By Robert Parry
August 2, 2005

Right-wing columnist Robert Novak’s new attack on former Ambassador Joseph Wilson – that he was “discarded a year ago by the Kerry presidential campaign” – recycled a disputed report from Talon News correspondent Jeff Gannon, who was unmasked earlier this year as a pro-Republican operative working under an assumed name.

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Assault on Wilson

Novak’s column also resumed the Right’s long-running assault on Wilson’s credibility. Near the end of the column, Novak wrote that “Joseph Wilson was discarded a year ago by the Kerry presidential campaign after the Senate {intelligence} committee reported that much of what he {Wilson} said ‘had no basis in fact.’”

However, Novak’s sentence appears to be wrong on both its points. The Senate Intelligence Committee did not conclude that Wilson’s statements about the Iraqi intelligence “had no basis in fact.” That was a phrase that Novak culled from “additional views” of three Republican senators.

The full committee refused to accept that opinion written by Sen. Pat Roberts and backed by two other conservative Republicans – Christopher Bond and Orrin Hatch – yet Novak left the impression that the phrase was part of what he called “a unanimous Senate intelligence committee report” released in July 2004.

The other part of Novak’s attack on Wilson – about his supposed repudiation by Sen. John Kerry’s Democratic campaign – can be traced back to a story by Talon News’ former White House correspondent Jeff Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/080205.html



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[Skittles]

1. LOL Novak just cannot stop himself from playing the Bush Whore

I'm wondering if Novak's lawyer finds this appropriate

[Mr_Spock]

2. Somebody needs to shove Novaks false teeth up his ass hole

This prick is a disgrace who just keeps digging a deeper hole to try and cover for his previous disgraceful behavior.

[paineinthearse]

3. mental image

Novack, Coulter, Guckert, or any other * whore are incapable of original thought or written articles. The copy is created by a room full of Rove-trained toadies deep inside the bowels of the executive office building.

[TacticalPeek]

4. Morning kick.

:kick:

[laststeamtrain]

5. Here's my FNN style intro to the story

Rheumy-eyed old alkie Republican treasonous columnist recycles stories by man-whore Republican fake reporter to slam American hero again.It's just sad, like watching old bums fight in an alley. If only somehow plagiarist, trans-sexual Ann Coulter could be brought into the story or confused sexual harasser Bill 'loofah? Falafel?' O'Reilly:

[skip fox]

6. This marks at least the second time Gannon is in on this case!

Early on, after immediate storm following Novak's article, two news personalities (Novak and Gannon) both claimed that Plame's name was well known by reporters and others "in the Beltway." Interestingly, no other reporters made the same contention.


Hmmm . . . .

[Up2Late]

7. Terri Gross on "Fresh Air" interviewed two reporters about this yesterday

Fresh air is from WHYY/NPR.

First question "...what new did he say about this?" Reporter: "...nothing!"

It is a good interview, and worth a listen though.

Reporters Adam Liptak , Anne Marie Squeo on the Plame Case

Listen to this story (at the link above)Run time= 39:03

Fresh Air from WHYY, August 2, 2005 · Questions remain about who in the Bush administration outed CIA operative Valerie Plame. Adam Liptak of The New York Times and Anne Marie Squeo of The Wall Street Journal discuss the case and the subsequent jailing of the Times' Judith Miller for refusing to reveal her sources.

Liptak is The New York Times' national legal correspondent. He was senior counsel in the Times' legal department prior to becoming a reporter.

Squeo covers the Justice Department and law enforcement in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal. She was a member of the team of journalists that won the Pulitzer Prize for the Journal's series, "The Price of Power," about the future of the U.S. military.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4781943>

[SuperWonk]

8. Hmmm....

Why hasn't Novak gotten more heat for all this?
Until recently, he has been the most quiet, and therefore most suspicious character, in my book.

Thoughts?