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Politics : Karl Rove: A mastermind or a liability for George Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (91)	8/1/2005 11:42:27 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 255

NOVAK BREAKS SILENCE Novak broke his silence on the case on Monday to challenge a former CIA spokesman who said that he had warned Novak not to publish the agent's name. Bill Harlow, the former CIA spokesman cited by Novak, told the Washington Post last week that he had testified before a grand jury about conversations he had with Novak at least three days before the column was published. Harlow 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 trip to Niger and that if he did write about it, her name should not be revealed, the Post reported. Novak, in his column on Monday, brushed aside Harlow's comments about warning him. "That is meaningless. Once it was determined that Wilson's wife suggested the mission, she could be identified as 'Valerie Plame' by reading her husband's entry in 'Who's Who in America,"' Novak wrote, referring to a publication that compiles information about prominent people. Novak wrote that he "never would have written those sentences (in July 2003) if Bill Harlow, then-CIA Director George Tenet or anybody else from the agency had told me that Valerie Plame Wilson's disclosure would endanger her or anybody else." Is Novak some kind of idiot? Just because it is POSSIBLE to connect some dots and get to an unsupported conclusion...it does not lead that you then have the right to publish the name to millions of people. Not everyone could have, or would have, connected the dots.... Now we have a CIA executive testifying under oath that he did not want Plame's name published....Novak is scum.