Bob Novak: To hell with Valerie Plame....I'M the victim here!!! Of the vicious Left.

[marmar]

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from ThinkProgress:



Novak: ‘I Don’t Think I Hurt Valerie Plame’ And I Would Out Her Again Because The Left ‘Tried To Ruin Me’»

During a recent interview with the National Ledger, conservative columnist Robert Novak was asked if he would reveal Valerie Plame Wilson’s secret CIA identity if he could go back and do it all over again. Novak noted that he has previously said he “should have ignored” what he had been told about Plame, but he now claims he is “much less ambivalent“:

NOVAK: I’d go full speed ahead because of the hateful and beastly way in which my left-wing critics in the press and Congress tried to make a political affair out of it and tried to ruin me. My response now is this: The hell with you. They didn’t ruin me. I have my faith, my family, and a good life. A lot of people love me — or like me. So they failed. I would do the same thing over again because I don’t think I hurt Valerie Plame whatsoever.

But of course, Plame was “hurt” because of Novak’s column — she no longer has a career as a covert CIA agent. Moreover, Plame has said that she feared for her and her family’s lives after Novak revealed her identity.

But Novak ignores the point that Plame’s outing had broader national security implications. In fact, Plame’s CIA job was to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and as one former senior intelligence officer put it, the leak made “it harder for other CIA officers to recruit sources.”

Novak also claimed “it was an important story because it explained why the CIA would send Joe Wilson (Plame’s husband) — a former Clinton White House aide with no track record in intelligence and no experience in Niger — on a fact-finding mission to Africa.” Except, Wilson did have experience in Niger, not only as a foreign service officer but as the NSC’s Senior Director of African Affairs during the Clinton administration as he explained to TPM:

WILSON: Why me? Because I knew a lot about the (uranium) business (…) I knew all of the personalities who would have been involved in this sort of interaction, because I had been at the White House during the time when the transaction purportedly took place.

Earlier in the interview with the National Ledger, Novak said that Vice President Dick Cheney is “the most forceful, effective vice president in history.” Given the dark “cloud” that hangs over the vice president’s involvement in the whole Plame saga, it is perhaps easy to understand Novak’s lack of remorse.


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/03/novak-plame-2/

[Vickers]

1. "...and that fucking bicyclist scratched my 'Vette!"

:crazy:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Oh is he still alive?

Lazy ass tumor.

[hlthe2b]

3. And that empathy we were all extending due to his brain tumor?

ummmm, perhaps, not so much.....

[sam sarrha]

4. someone slap that TRAITOROUS BITCH..!! HE SHOULD BE IN PRISON FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE

[trueblue2007]

5. Wouldn't the world be better off without wackjob Novak

SEND HIM AND ALL RETARD GOPS TO THE MOON.

Just establish a colony on the moon. Send Bush, Cheney and all his cronies to the moon. They will never hurt the people of the Earth again.

[Solly Mack]

6. Oh well

When you're sitting in the chair of free and clear you can tell any story you want to...

[dorkulon]

7. He outed a lot more than jut Plame.

In outing Plame, Novak also outed Brewster Jennings, a "cover" company that a lot of CIA agents "worked" for.

[sam sarrha]

11. probably on orders from the Whitehouse to protect the Saudi Royal Family from being exposed for

association in 911 and their association in the invasion of Iraq for profit/control of oil

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. See what this bastard does to me?

See what he makes me do?

Oh, I hate him for the things he forces out of me.

Now, here I am, rooting for the brain tumor.

See?

SEE WHAT HE DOES?

[bunkerbuster1]

16. You posted what I was thinking

and I HATE YOU for that!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

19. SEE???????????

SEE HOW THE HATE GROWS AND SPREADS???????

Just like I hope the tumor ....... uh, you know.

:toast:

[MadinMo]

9. Want a little cheese with that whine, Bob?

What a baby.

[Cleita]

10. Go away Bob and check yourself into the nursing home.

You and your ilk are no longer relevant. May you all go the way of the dinosaur.

[BOSSHOG]

12. Another display of conservative values

Lies, treason, selfishness, whining, hate, ignorance. Conservatives are loyal only to their political party, not our country.

I didn't think it could be possible but just perusing DU today, I find myself despising conservative values even more.

[sam sarrha]

13. these traitors never make death bed confessions.. someone smothers them with a pillow

[rateyes]

15. One can only hope. nt

[lame54]

14. I'm O.K. with that

[SpiralHawk]

17. Whiney republicon propagandist traitor to America

Tres republicon...

[patrice]

18. Cheerleader for Death & Destruction, speaking of Hell . . . !

:evilgrin: