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Novak Faking Naivete
Robert Novak, a Talking Head with 40 years experience in Washington DC, feigns innocence as he allows himself to be used to commit a felony.
Source: The TIP, 2003-10-02
Candidate: TheTIP
I've had many a bone to pick with Robert Novak over the years. One of his most agregious sins, it seemed to me, was while he participated in a Round Table discussion on Capital Gang and pronounced he yearned for the "Good Old Days" of the 50s - apparently oblivious of the fact
*that Black Men were being lynched in those Good Old Days,
*there were strict limitations on minorities, racial, gender and religious, at every university in the country,
*there were no examples of men of color or any women in positions of leadership, whether it be political or in business...
the Good Old Days were good for only one kind of American - White Males.
Well,obviously Novak has never been a favorite of mine. Maybe that's why I'm so interested in his Fall From Grace - a fall of his own engineering, I might add.
Here's a chronology - is his own words - of his participation is the Administration's felonious actions. (I've added my comments in parentheses.)
Syndicated columnist Robert Novak first revealed in a July 14 column that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative.
(There could be only one reason for his revelation - he wanted to discredit Joseph Wilson, who had just the week before revealed George W. Bush had mis-used intelligence to push the US to a pre-emptive war with Iraq)
In a follow-up on July 22, Newsday reported that Plame worked undercover. Novak, in a column Wednesday, defended his decision to make the name public. Excerpts from the three reports:
Novak column, July 14
Wilson's mission was created after an early 2002 report by the Italian intelligence service about attempted uranium purchases from Niger, derived from forged documents prepared by what the CIA calls a con man. This misinformation, peddled by Italian journalists, (and the President of the United States) spread through the U.S. government. The White House, State Department and Pentagon, and not just Vice President Dick Cheney, asked the CIA to look into it.That's where Joe Wilson came in. His first public notice had come in 1991 after 15 years as a Foreign Service officer when, as U.S. charge in Baghdad, he risked his life to shelter in the embassy some 800 Americans from Saddam Hussein's wrath.
My partner Rowland Evans reported from the Iraqi capital in our column that Wilson showed "the stuff of heroism."
President George H.W. Bush the next year named him ambassador to Gabon, and President Bill Clinton put him in charge of African affairs at the National Security Council until his retirement in 1998.
Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. (Ah, there it is)
Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. (Now, why did they do that, Bob?) The CIA says its counterproliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him." (Ah, then the "senior administration officials weren't telling the truth, were they? They had an agenda - you know all informants have an agenda, don't you Bob?)
Newsday story by Timothy M. Phelps and Knut Royce, July 22
Intelligence officials confirmed to Newsday yesterday (July 21) that Valerie Plame, wife of retired Ambassador Joseph Wilson, works at the agency on weapons of mass destruction issues in an undercover capacity -- at least she was undercover until last week when she was named by columnist Robert Novak.
Wilson, while refusing to confirm his wife's employment, (Well, at least Hero Wilson knows the law and obeys it) said the release to the press of her relationship to him and even her maiden name was an attempt to intimidate others like him from talking about Bush administration intelligence failures. (And he's smart enough to figure out the agenda, too. Smarter than you, Bob)
Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me," he said. "They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it." (Oh, Bob, don't be so humble. You used the information to do their dirty work. And you weren't above blowing your own horn at the same time.)
Novak column, Wednesday
During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. (Now, Bob, you're going off here. Obviously he is a partisan gunslinger, as are you. Else, he would have no reason to tell you what he did and you would have no reason to use it, especially since you immediately discovered what he'd told you wasn't really true.) When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue. (Now, Bob, you don't know that...)
At the CIA, the official designated to talk to me denied that Wilson's wife had inspired his selection but said she was delegated to request his help. (You see, you knew the truth, and you knew why the informant had lied to you.) He 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. (No, you just weren't above using a lie to cause her "difficulties." You dog, you.)
Even if the felon isn't found, one good thing may come of this situation. Bob Novak has been exposed for the partisan he is. He's become inept. Maybe he'll retire.
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User Originated Comments:
From: Linda
2004-05-14 01:34:47
amazing, 5/13/04, novak, the traitor, accuses
james carville of being unpatriotic. amazing.
From: albert g.
2004-01-30 00:00:00
now we all know that ashcroft
has to approve
the criminal charge, which is very unlikely, as
ashcroft is synonymous to the bush administration
.
second. they would pardon him in a
heartbeat if found guilty.
From: Linda
2004-01-30 15:41:34
novak claims he didn't know plame was an
undercover agent when he said she was a cia agent.
From:
2004-01-09 00:00:00
why can't novak be charged with the crime of
revealing the identity of an undercover agent???
identities act of 1982
it is a federal
crime.
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