This article brings up the exact point that bothers me. Who are these six Journalists? Why haven't they come forward? Is the Post wrong on this?
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Robert Novak
The hollow center of the Plame Affair.
By Chris Suellentrop
...The central questions of the scandal are, who are the six journalists, what were they told, who told them, and why?
So far, it doesn't appear that we know the identity of a single one of the six journalists. Novak says he wasn't called. NBC News has said that Andrea Mitchell—whom Wilson identified as one of the reporters who called him to discuss the story—was not told about Plame until after Novak's column was published. And Newsday's Knut Royce and Timothy Phelps, who published more details about Plume after Novak's column, attributed their information to a "senior intelligence official," not a White House official. (Despite this, Novak claimed in his Wednesday column that "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." How does he know the calls to the six reporters didn't happen? Does he know something about the Washington Post story that the rest of us don't? If so, why is he sitting on this scoop?)
.....If the claims of the Post's source are true, we shouldn't have to wait to find out what the leakers told the six journalists. Journalists in the business of reporting information, rather than covering it up, ought to come forward with exactly what they were told. Presumably, that information can be relayed without burning any sources. After all, the journalists were leaked the information precisely because the leakers wanted them to print it. If the Plame Affair Six come forward with their stories, we still won't know who leaked, but we'll know a lot more about what was leaked and why.
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