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To: JohnM who wrote (9923)	9/29/2003 8:59:09 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793707

I absolutely agree it was wrong to make her name public. Whoever leaked it shouldn't have leaked it and Novak shouldn't have published it. As a columnist he doesn't have editors, but someone in the distribution chain was asleep at the switch. That column should never have seen the light of day.

To: JohnM who wrote (9923)	9/29/2003 9:07:10 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793707

WRONG!! Novak said it was NOT someone in the White House: 'Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this. In July I was interviewing a senior administration official on Ambassador Wilson's report when he told me the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing. As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in Washington I do not reveal confidential sources. When I called the CIA in July to confirm Mrs. Wilson's involvement in the mission for her husband -- he is a former Clinton administration official -- they asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operator, and not in charge of undercover operatives' drudgereport.com But even if he were, it would certainly be wrong for the White House folk (that's who Novak said they were and that's who the article in the Post in this last couple of days, said they were) to make her name public.