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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2708453http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/29/D8MVA2EG0.html"I was not and never have been the recipient of the leak," Russert said. "Everyone acknowledges that. The question is, when Libby called me, what did he say? He called in protest to something he had seen on MSNBC 'Hardball,' and that was the extent of it."
"He didn't call me as a confidential source, as such," he said. "He was calling me as a viewer to complain."
Russert said that if he had known of Plame's connection to former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a Bush war critic and Plame's husband, or that she worked for the CIA, "believe me, NBC would have been up front on the story and not reading about it in Robert Novak's column."
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