Interesting, Bob Novak seems to be the source of some new discussion on this ongoing issue…
Bob Novak Says President Knows Leak Source
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051215/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation
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Novak said that “I’d be amazed” if the president didn’t know the source’s identity and that the public should “bug the president as to whether he should reveal who the source is.”
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In 2003, Novak exposed Plame’s identity eight days after her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of manipulating prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat. In the column disclosing Plame’s CIA status, Novak said the sources for his column were two administration officials.
The identity of Novak’s sources has been one of the secrets in the CIA leak investigation.
Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, is one of Novak’s sources, according to people close to the investigation, but his other source is not publicly known.
Novak apparently is cooperating with the criminal investigation of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, though the journalist has never said so.
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Schumer, D-N.Y., urged Bush to share the identity of Novak’s sources if the president knows.
“You are in a position to clear this matter up quickly,” Schumer said in a letter to the president on Wednesday.
“Unlike Mr. Novak, who can claim an interest in maintaining the confidentiality of his sources, there is no similar privilege arguably preventing you from sharing this information,” Schumer wrote.
“You have repeatedly suggested that you would like to get to the bottom of this affair,” Schumer reminded Bush. “At one point, in 2004, you suggested that anyone who was involved in leaking the name of the covert CIA operative would be fired.”
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Since the president has recently discovered the concept of taking responsibility, will he encourage the truth to come out in this affair? Yes, that is obviously a tongue-in-cheek statement.