Newsmax: Robert Novak: Plame Source 'No Partisan Gunslinger'

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Our favorite Newsmax, trying very hard...

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/12/223422.shtml

Robert Novak: Plame Source 'No Partisan Gunslinger'

The Washington press corps and their Democratic friends have been too busy this week chasing down Karl Rove to notice that columnist Robert Novak has offered a tantalizing clue about the identity of just who it was who leaked Valerie Plame's name to him back in July 2003.

And judging from Novak's revelation - it wasn't Karl Rove.

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"During a long conversation with a senior administration official," he wrote, "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."

No partisan gunslinger?

Even fans of Mr. Rove would be hard-presseed to deny he's a "partisan gunslinger" - just the kind of person Novak says his leaker wasn't.

Could Novak have been lying to protect Mr. Rove? Perhaps. But by the time he wrote the above words, the Plame leak was already under investigation by the Justice Department, a develpoment that would have guaranteed that he'd have to repeat that falsehood under oath.

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[AlCzervik]

1. i read Novak said we'll all be surprised so of course the first name that

popped into my head was Powell.

[alarcojon]

2. Yeah, like Novakula wouldn't try to send us down a dead end.

eom

[KarenInMA]

3. hmmm novak and newsmax

two great sources!!

[nankerphelge]

7. Here's a third...

According to the National Review this is the reporter from Time's fault:

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200507121626.asp

[Stephanie]

4. No, he's a Partisan Panywaist

But he's still a piece of shit.

[Fridays Child]

5. And Novak's definition of gunslinger is....

Yeah. The devil is always in the details.

[eleny]

6. You know what that is

[Zenlitened]

8. "Newsmax." Hee hee hee hee! *snicker* *snort*

Hahahahahahahahahaha!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It cracks me up they way they actually take themselves seriously!

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[wallwriter]

9. I have no special desire to see Colin Powell in jail,

unless Rove or Cheney was his bunkmate.

It would be bad if it were Powell. He's still very popular. There would be a groundswell of support to pardon him, making it easier to pardon anyone else involved.

By the way. Isn't Novak supposed to keep his fucking trap shut on this topic?

[donco6]

10. How does Novak have the gall to appear in any media?

Even Newshacks?

[LSK]

11. Novaks ORIGINAL exact quote:

"Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report."

[Eloriel]

12. Uh, there's no one allowed NEAR that administration who isn't a

partisan gunslinger. They may not be big-mouths about it, but if they're not slinging partisanship, they're simply not allowed anywhere around.

I REALLY want to know who Novak's source is now.