Novak didn't only out Plame, he outted her front company.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

In October of 2003, Robert Novak trying to smear Valerie Plame even more, actually exposed the CIA front company she was working for.


http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn200310...

The Wilsons for Gore
Robert Novak (archive)


October 4, 2003

.......snip.......
In making her April 22, 1999, contribution, Valerie E. Wilson identified herself as an "analyst" with "Brewster-Jennings & Associates." No such firm is listed anywhere, but the late Brewster Jennings was president of Socony-Vacuum oil company a half-century ago. Any CIA employee working under "non-official cover" always is listed with a real firm, but never an imaginary one

[wtmusic]

1. I think you missed part of the link

I get 404 Not Found

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

9. Ooops! Corrected link

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031004.shtml

[Brotherjohn]

2. More on Brewster-Jennings c/o Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Jennings_&_Associates

[Coastie for Truth]

6. Front names

Always watch our for, e.g., "Mulberry Optics" or "Mulberry Cameras" -- Mulberry is the English translation of the Japanese word "Kwanon"

What is "Kwanon"? Dr. Kwanon was the Japanese optometrist-optician who founded "Kwanon Optical" as an eyeglass business -- we know it as Canon Cameras.

[seabeyond]

3. he says didnt know covert, yet outing front company

pretty much makes the statement covert. just ridiculous the stories told expecting us to believe nad media puts out like we will believe

[Coastie for Truth]

4. Robert Novak is just plain dumb

You can set up a corporation for under $100. by filing with the Secretary of State in, for example, Delaware or Nevada, and getting an Employer ID from the IRS (that's free) -- appoint a "corporation service" in Vegas or Wilmington for "acceptance of service" and get a PO Box somewhere (under $140/year) -- and if you really want to go high tech in cyberspace - get a bull crap web page and e-mail address for under $300/year.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. For reference: Novak's column of July 14, 2003

From TownHall.com
Dated July 14, 2003

Mission to Niger
By Robert Novak

The CIA's decision to send retired diplomat Joseph C. Wilson to Africa in February 2002 to investigate possible Iraqi purchases of uranium was made routinely at a low level without Director George Tenet's knowledge. Remarkably, this produced a political firestorm that has not yet subsided . . . .

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. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.

Read more.

Novak makes no mention of Brewster Jennings and Associates in this column.

[nyhuskyfan]

10. He wrote a second story a couple days later that did...

I'll try to see if I can find a link

[Jack Rabbit]

11. I have it. See below.

!!

[Walt Starr]

7. That's where the Espionage Act of 1917 comes into play n/t

[Marnieworld]

12. Thank you Walt Starr

I keep waiting for everyone to catch up on this and it is so frustrating. It's not the IIPA it is espionage. Releasing the classified info that Wilson's wife suggested him is the crime that they've already admitted. Those indictments can't come fast enough.

[proud patriot]

8. Randi Rhodes goes through this in detail

get yesterdays Archive 7/14/05

[Jack Rabbit]

13. Link to Novak: October 4, 2003

From TownHall.cpm
Dated Octobewr 4, 2003

The Wilsons for Gore
By Robert Novak

On the same day in 1999 that retired diplomat Joseph Wilson was returned $1,000 of $2,000 he contributed to Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore a month earlier because it exceeded the federal limit, his CIA-employee wife gave $1,000 to Gore using a fictitious identification for herself.

In making her April 22, 1999, contribution, Valerie E. Wilson identified herself as an "analyst" with "Brewster-Jennings & Associates." No such firm is listed anywhere, but the late Brewster Jennings was president of Socony-Vacuum oil company a half-century ago. Any CIA employee working under "non-official cover" always is listed with a real firm, but never an imaginary one.

Read more.

This piece in The Boston Globe shows that Brewster Jennings wasn't much of a cover.