The Leakers
Posted on | February 12, 2007
“Journalist” Robert Novak testified today as part of Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s defense, repeating his assertion that it wasn’t Libby who leaked Valerie Plame’s name and identity to him; it was former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage:
…Mr. Novak said, “I got no help or no confirmation from Mr. Libby on that issue.”
Nor was Mr. Armitage helpful early on, Mr. Novak said, recalling how Mr. Armitage refused his requests for an interview again and again. “He just didn’t want to see me,” Mr. Novak said.
But finally Mr. Armitage relented, confirming the agent’s identity in a one-on-one interview on July 8, 2003, Mr. Novak said. A day later, Mr. Novak said, Mr. Rove provided additional confirmation…
Mr. Novak’s column of July 14, 2003, first revealed to the public that Mr. Wilson’s wife was “an agency operative” specializing in weapons of mass destruction.
Meanwhile, the other leakers were following Cheney’s order to “get the full story out.” Novak couldn’t wait to expose her.
