Novak in '03: "I didn't dig it out...they gave me the name and I used it"

[Rose Siding]

Columnist Names CIA Iraq Operative
By Timothy M. Phelps and Knut Royce
New York Newsday
July 21, 2003.
snip>
Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me," he said. "They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it."

http://foi.missouri.edu/voicesdissent/columnistnames.html

via TPM post about today's NYT piece-

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_31.php#006201

[Skidmore]

1. Like that makes it okay, you traitorous windbag. eom

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. the basturd....kick & recommended

[wryter2000]

3. Also recommended

:kick:

[TahitiNut]

4. Flip-flop, flipper.

Funny how his story morphs to suit a partisan agenda, huh? I guess his copy of "Who's Who" was a gift from the same 'source.'

[wryter2000]

5. Is there a link to the original interview?

I'd love to get it from the horses's mouth.

[GoldenOldie]

6. Novak is a Traitor

Novak has been in DC for years and years......long enough to understand the functions of the various federal agencies.

Novak is not a cub reporter and is boastful and very arrogant on his journalistic abilities. Unless he is having a senior memory loss, he fully understands when information that would out any CIA or FBI personnel could jeapordize their lives and the security of our Nation. He fully knew what he was doing and he went ahead and did it anyway because he is close friends with Rove and the boys/gals in the WH. As with Georgie, loyalty to friends comes before loyalty to country.

[Rose Siding]

7. The NYT reporters wrote "in an interview"

They don't say secifically if it was in an interview with them personally or with someone else. -but if it were published elsewhere, or in a TV interview, isn't it customary to cite the source?