NOVAK: BREAKS SILENCE-SAYS FITZ FINISHED WITH HIM

[kpete]

BOB NOVAK, My Leak Case Testimony: 'I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in 'Who's Who in America'... MORE Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has informed my attorneys that, after two and one-half years, his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to me has been concluded. That frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry that, at the request of Fitzgerald, I have kept secret... MORE... My primary source has not come forward to identify himself... Bill Harlow, the CIA public information officer who was my CIA source for the column confirming Mrs. Wilson's identity. I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in 'Who's Who in America'... I answered questions using the names of Rove, Harlow and my primary source.

http://www.drudgereport.com/

FLASH: Bob Novak will break his silence tomorrow night in two separate interviews with FOXNEWS CHANNEL, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Novak will appear on Brit Hume (6pm/et) and Hannity & Colmes (9pm/et)...

[lonestarnot]

1. hmmmf.

Still can't stand your stink'n ass Novak! You're a damn liar!

[npincus]

2. FOS- full of SHIT. "Brewster Jennings" was recorded as a covert

CIA operation in the Who's Who entry?

Nail the old bastard back in his coffin!

[Disturbed]

3. Novak commited Treason

when he revealed Brewster Jennings, period!

[MADem]

6. Accessory after the fact. The ones before the fact are the big fish. NT

[Ganja Ninja]

81. More like co-conspirator.

Don't forget he has a previous incident with KKKarl similar to this.
Novak probably didn't call up Rove and ask for the information. It was more likely Rove called Novak and said, 'Hey Bob, I have a job for you.'

[H2O Man]

4. He is trying

to help his friends. He is a piece of shit.

[stop the bleeding]

34. one of them in particular

Cheney ;)

[Just Me]

7. POS, too. What a "ho"!!! Gawd, I hope that basturd goes down,...

,...in flames! I am tired of these alien barbaric heartless droppings of human waste.

EW!!!!! :grr:

[Igel]

22. IIRC, that name was

claimed to have been derived from a public document listing her political contributions.

Valerie Plame, employer Brewster Jennings. Know the name, and want to find out her political leanings? There it is. DUers have done it for many a public figure; private figures are no different.

[w4rma]

25. Did it say in Who's Who that she was a CIA agent? No.

And Novak revealed that she was a CIA agent, uncovering, killing, imprisoning and probably torturing many important CIA assets in the process.

[Igel]

31. No.

As I've said elsewhere, if a person simply told Novak that "Wilson's wife wrote a recommendation for his trip", you get to Novak's story in 2 or 3 easy steps.

The only thing you need to do is confirm that Plame was CIA; you don't need to confirm 'covert' or 'undercover' status. And he got that.

Now, this may not be how it happened; it may have been a vast conspiracy that set out specifically to undermine Brewster Jennings. But it's consistent with everybody's story, and plausible; it requires no assumptions but a certain level of basic inquisitiveness in pursuit of undermining Wilson, which we knew existed anyway. Moreover, it's consistent not with how RW thought is portrayed on DU, but with how RW writers wrote and argued at the time, and is consistent with plausible motives.

[formernaderite]

83. Wasn't Plame her CIA cover name?

did Who's who list her as Wilson or Plame? I'm confused....and who actually submits the information to WHo's who?

[Garbo 2004]

48. No but if you know Valerie Plame Wilson really works for the CIA then

it pretty much means her employer of public record is a cover. For example, long ago I looked up the Wilson's campaign contributions and Valerie Wilson listed Brewster Jennings as her employer. That only becomes significant when you know/learn that she really works for the CIA.

As Joe Wilson said, she, Brewster Jennings, and related ops were all blown when her CIA employment was made public via Novak's column. Other intel agencies would be checking up on Plame/Wilson, her "employer," and related contacts/activities right after her CIA identity hit the media.

[gkhouston]

5. my, my, my

what an interesting distraction we have set before us. Someone must be getting very nervous indeed. :popcorn:

[lonestarnot]

10. I hope the hell you are right! Time is running closer and closer!

Almost time to let the cat out of the bag isn't it! Shit!

[Beaverhausen]

8. Knowing her name is not the same as knowing she was a covert CIA agent

This is such bullshit.

Knowing Joe Wilson's wife's name isn't a big deal - revealing that she is an agent is.

[librechik]

12. it is utter nonsense--how could Novak say she sent Joe to Africa

if he didn't know she was CIA?


Novak is senile.

[gordianot]

9. Puke for a puke.

:puke:

[Monkeyman]

11. Novak will lie to protect the White House

[leveymg]

15. He's under no compulsion to tell the truth to the public about any of this

And, I don't expect he will.

As for Bill Harlow, Novak is revealing nothing new here. This is from a 07/27/05 WaPo article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072602069_pf.html

Harlow, the former CIA spokesman, said in an interview yesterday that he testified last year before a grand jury about conversations he had with Novak at least three days before the column was published. He said he warned Novak, in the strongest terms he was permitted to use without revealing classified information, that Wilson's wife had not authorized the mission and that if he did write about it, her name should not be revealed.

Harlow said that after Novak's call, he checked Plame's status and confirmed that she was an undercover operative. He said he called Novak back to repeat that the story Novak had related to him was wrong and that Plame's name should not be used. But he did not tell Novak directly that she was undercover because that was classified.

In a column published Oct. 1, 2003, Novak wrote that the CIA official he spoke to "asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause 'difficulties' if she travels abroad. He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name."

Harlow was also involved in the larger internal administration battle over who would be held responsible for Bush using the disputed charge about the Iraq-Niger connection as part of the war argument. Based on the questions they have been asked, people involved in the case believe that Fitzgerald looked into this bureaucratic fight because the effort to discredit Wilson was part of the larger campaign to distance Bush from the Niger controversy.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Damn, post a warning next time

I didn't bring my wading boots.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Novak cursed and stormed off set, basically quitting his job

When he was about to be confronted with "Who's Who." Because he knows damn well that nothing in that entry reveals her agency status, and was about to be exposed as a liar on national television. Now he wants to continue with his lies? Puh-leez.

[progressoid]

16. Ya, that stunt was a great show of journalistic integrity. nt

[johnnydrama]

17. maybe

He may have learned her name, but nothing else about her from that Who's Who.

[Gregorian]

18. I don't think he is fooling anyone but himself.

Although the White House has most certainly been working double time to deflect any blame.

It must be rotten to live life as a supreme douchebag.

[Rose Siding]

19. Big scoop, Matt. Novak wrote about that in Aug 2005. LINK----->

Columnist Hints Book Was Source That Led to Use of C.I.A. Officer's Name

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 - One of the most puzzling aspects of the C.I.A. leak case has had to do with the name of the exposed officer. Why did the syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak identify her as Valerie Plame in exposing her link to the C.I.A. in July 2003 when she had been known for years both at the agency and in her personal life by her married name, Valerie Wilson?

Mr. Novak offered a possible explanation for the disconnect on Monday, suggesting in his column that he could have obtained Ms. Wilson's maiden name from the directory Who's Who in America, which used that name in identifying her as the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/politics/02leak.html?ex=1280635200&en=3e09e480ced36690&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

[Canuckistanian]

20. Did it say "Valerie Plame - Spy" in Who's Who?

Throw his ass in jail.

[wordpix2]

21. "Novak will appear on Brit Hume and Hannity & Colmes"--he wouldn't want to

appear on a REAL news channel and be subjected to a real interview now, would he?

Friggin traitor.

[DemReadingDU]

23. Bob Novak's article

My Leak Case Testimony
Posted Jul 11, 2006

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has informed my attorneys that, after two and one-half years, his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to me has been concluded. That frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry that, at the request of Fitzgerald, I have kept secret.

I have cooperated in the investigation while trying to protect journalistic privileges under the First Amendment and shield sources who have not revealed themselves. I have been subpoenaed by and testified to a federal grand jury. Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue.

For nearly the entire time of his investigation, Fitzgerald knew -- independent of me -- the identity of the sources I used in my column of July 14, 2003. A federal investigation was triggered when I reported that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was employed by the CIA and helped initiate his 2002 mission to Niger. That Fitzgerald did not indict any of these sources may indicate his conclusion that none of them violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.


more...
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15988



edited to add title and date of article

[bleever]

24. Link to Who's Who entry for Joseph C. Wilson:

http://wizbangblog.com/2005/08/05/joseph-wilsons-whos-who-in-america-entry.php

And note the copy of Who's Who in the photo of Carville and the off-stalking Novak.

:)

[berni_mccoy]

26. Novak Could have Learned her name from ANYONE; HE'S DODGING THE POINT

He could NOT have learned from anyone that she was A COVERT CIA OPERATIVE.

HE LEARNED *THAT FACT* FROM ROVE.

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[Kingofalldems]

35. That's not what Fitzgerald said

He said she was undercover. I think he knows a little more than you. So where did you get your info? Rush? Or WMD boy, Hannity?

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[Oilwellian]

39. You apparently haven't been paying attention

Why would a special prosecutor be appointed if a crime wasn't committed? I've yet to get a straight answer from the Kool Aid drinkers.

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[bobbieinok]

73. inform yourself before you try these lies here .. DU's been investigating

this for quite a while.

[kpete]

27. UPDATE

In an op-ed on Human Events Online, Novak writes that Fitzgerald has cleared him and that “frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry.” But Novak fails to “reveal all,” as he earlier pledged, in at least two respects.

1. Novak refuses to identify his primary administration source who revealed to him that Valerie Plame worked at the CIA as an undercover agent. He confirms Karl Rove was his second senior administration source, and that CIA official Bill Harlow served as a confirming source. But Novak writes his primary source’s name “has not yet been revealed” and “has not come forward to identify himself.”

2. Novak also did not explain why he earlier said he was given Plame’s identity by the White House as part of an effort to intentionally out her. He said: “I didn’t dig it out , it was given to me…. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.” In his latest op-ed, Novak fails to address this issue, and states simply that Plame’s “role in instituting her husband’s mission was revealed to me in the middle of a long interview with an official who I have previously said was not a political gunslinger.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/11/novak-explanation/

[felix t cat]

28. more info, still lots of holes

The Human Events article is the complete story from Novak himself, the Drudge posting is his usual mash-up and misses the main points.

What is interesting is that Novak is still protecting his source, but according to him Fitz knows who Source #1 is. One thing I would like very much is for Fitz to issue a report (which would include things like the identity of Source #1, which he is under no obligation to protect). But because the Special Prosecutor law was ended Fitz won't be able to do that. He has to follow the standard Federal Prosecutor rules which are "let the arrests do the talking" basically.

According to Novak, Rove only confirmed what source #1 had told him. It's also amazing that the CIA confirmed this. Apparently they didn't think enough of Val's secret identity to protect it. (IE: Yes, she is, and please don't publish that, she is covert.) Again, I'd like to see why the information officer wasn't more protective. Very odd.

This is another little piece of the puzzle, but the whole picture is still cloudy.

[stop the bleeding]

30. Welcome to DU felix t cat

I thought that Fitz could issue a report if he wants to but he does not have to. I may be wrong on this, a minor point on what is a larger puzzle.

Welcome to DU

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[Catherine Vincent]

40. Do you have any information that we don't?

Spill it or chill it!

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[Spazito]

42. LOL, just LOL, sometimes finesse works better, nuance, etc, etc. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

44. You'll have to tell us where you got this info from.

Do you have a link? We can't take your word for it. Thanks.

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[blonndee]

46. That explains it!

Hokey dokey.

[Catherine Vincent]

49. What terrible site? Is it a legitimate site?

I don't think Joe Wilson or the CIA would go through all that trouble of finally getting the White House to investigate this if his wife wasn't covert.

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[Catherine Vincent]

56. No, not freerepublic

I want the links from freerepublic that are legitimate. I don't want to have to go there. Thanks. And if you're saying the facts are from postings of their posters then that's just a total waste. Those posters are in love with Bush too much.

[Spazito]

61. LOL, ummm, going to the headquarters of delusional freepers

for facts is like looking for a sign of intelligence in bush, neither can be found.

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[Spazito]

69. Only if one wants to laugh, certainly not if one is looking for facts

I hope you have noticed how actual links to actual facts is often, very often provided by users of DU, it is expected when one cites something as fact yet cannot, will not provide proof. That seems to be quite the opposite in freeperland, facts are an anathema to those who wish to keep their delusions, quite sad really, once one stops laughing that is.

[H2O Man]

78. Scooter!

Go back to bed. This type of behavior will not keep you outta jail.

[bilgewaterbill]

58. If Fitz knew who the primary source was, why was no indictment issued?

[newyawker99]

76. Hi felix t cat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[dogday]

77. Remeber Rove Lied from the start

read this and remember .....


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1469616&mesg_id=1469616

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

29. I would like to say "Bullshit" and walk away from the table...

... isn't that how it's done in his world?

What a turd. Has his other hip tried to escape yet?

[stop the bleeding]

33. Cheney

Cheney is Novak's other WH source, it is Cheney who lead the effort against Joseph Wilson, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney.


I wonder how close Fitz is to Darth, I wonder how well Darth is sleeping right now.


Cheney.

[kpete]

52. STB

OT but had to brag about my new "Stump Jumper"
been jumping, but mostly bumping

see ya...

[Spazito]

38. Well, we know one thing that we really knew all along, Novak sang

like the putrid birdie he is the second his fat ass was in trouble and now he is trying to salvage same ass and those of his equally putrid buds.

He is full of self importance, he was merely the water-carrier for the bush cabal so peripheral to the investigation, no surprise he has been notified he is no longer of interest to Fitzgerald. He sang his puny heart out from the beginning so he is no longer of use.

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[Spazito]

50. Agree, Novak sang so quickly and he only had info to provide that

verified what Fitz already knew, that being the name and cover operation of a COVERT CIA agent was leaked to Novak in contravention of the law. Novak was not the leaker, he was merely the leakee, as usual he got pissed on by Rove and is still kissing his butt and lying for him. Pretty pathetic for sure.

Fitz's investigation continues, Novak's part in it was peripheral and even that part is now over.

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[blonndee]

53. Wow, you got ALL the talking points memorized,

apparently.

[Spazito]

55. Umm, it was the CIA itself that requested the investigation of the

leak of the identity of a COVERT agent. That request is what started the whole ball rolling.

Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry
CIA Agent's Identity Was Leaked to Media

By Mike Allen and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 28, 2003; Page A01


At CIA Director George J. Tenet's request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that administration officials leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist, government sources said yesterday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A11208-2003Sep27

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[Spazito]

65. Gosh, I hope your visit has been fruitful, dare I say "educational"!

DU deals in facts, facts backed up by CREDIBLE links unlike freeper delusion headquarters, aka free republic. Oh, and to help your further edification, Fitzgerald did, indeed, refer to Valerie Plame's identity as classified and her position as covert:

Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson’s employment status was classified. Prior to that date, her affiliation with the CIA was not common knowledge outside the intelligence community. Disclosure of classified information about an individual’s employment by the CIA has the potential to damage the national security in ways that range from preventing that individual’s future use in a covert capacity, to compromising intelligence-gathering methods and operations, and endangering the safety of CIA employees and those who deal with them, the indictment states.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/documents/libby_pr_28102005.pdf

To show how fair DUers are, here is the link to the document from Fitzgerald's site, it would probably be helpful to you to read not only his press release but also the text of his press conference, it is very enlightening, more enlightening than freeperland headquarters even, lol.

[Kingofalldems]

67. You are full of it, if I may say so

Fact: None of her neighbors, who the Wilsons socialized with regularly, knew she was CIA. This was confirmed by Fitz.
Fact: The Vanity Fair article came out long after the traitors you seem to worship outed her.
Can you be fair? Doubt it.

[H2O Man]

79. Scooter gets upset.

Little Man Syndrome. The thoughts of incarceration. The little guy gets on the computer, even after his lawyers ask him not to. Shame, shame. Dick Cheney's to blame.

[Sydnie]

57. .........

[proud2BlibKansan]

60. The point you are mising

is this - why bring her into it at all? Their beef was with her husband. Yet they ruin HER career??

Guess that koolaid you been drinkin has prevented you from seeing this is such an evil act, regardless of whether or not she was covert.

Enjoy your brief stay here! :hi:

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[proud2BlibKansan]

66. LOL When did Joe mention her?

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[proud2BlibKansan]

72. You are wrong

He divorced his wife before he met Valerie. And why that even matters . . .

Oh I get it, we are assassinating Joe Wilson's character. Sorry, had to get my brain in a repukelican mindset. It's hard for me to do that swift boating.

[Quixote1818]

74. No one has been indicted because Bush is a traitor to his Country

No one has been indicted for outing her because Bush declassified her covert status and blew the cover on her efforts to track WMD's in Iran. Bush also blew the cover of her front company Brewster Jennings.

http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0703nj1.htm

Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic
By Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Monday, July 3, 2006

President Bush told the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case that he directed Vice President Dick Cheney to personally lead an effort to counter allegations made by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV that his administration had misrepresented intelligence information to make the case to go to war with Iraq, according to people familiar with the president's interview.


Bush told prosecutors he directed Cheney to disclose classified information that would not only defend his administration but also discredit Wilson.



Bush also told federal prosecutors during his June 24, 2004, interview in the Oval Office that he had directed Cheney, as part of that broader effort, to disclose highly classified intelligence information that would not only defend his administration but also discredit Wilson, the sources said.

But Bush told investigators that he was unaware that Cheney had directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, to covertly leak the classified information to the media instead of releasing it to the public after undergoing the formal governmental declassification processes.

[Kingofalldems]

59. Well gee whiz you could free Libby tomorrow with all your

facts. Run down to the Grand Jury and testify. And bring all your facts from Free Republic with you. :rofl: :rofl:

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[Kingofalldems]

71. So you are backing down

Just like your chickenhawk brethen at the other site.

[Fleshdancer]

75. Novak: Rove was a source in outing Plame

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_novak

WASHINGTON - Columnist Robert Novak said publicly for the first time Tuesday that White House political adviser Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.

In a column, Novak also says his recollection of his conversation with Rove differs from what the Rove camp has said.

"I have revealed Rove's name because his attorney has divulged the substance of our conversation, though in a form different from my recollection," Novak wrote. Novak did not elaborate.

[wordpix2]

80. bwahahaha, now Rove & Novak are at odds & shooting at each other

Love it when the repukes eat their own. Take that, freepers! :rofl:

[newspeak]

82. and how about

Brewster-Jennings, Brewster-Jennings, Brewster-Jennings? A network monitoring WMD's dismantled!!!!!! Why? Mayhap, someone wanted to blow a network so they didn't need silly facts when they got their war hard on!!!