Novak Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

Despite his claim that he's finally telling his story, columnist Robert Novak is discovering that a fair number of people know a great deal more about Leakgate than he was counting on. It's fun to watch him squirm. TPMMuckraker alone has two items that show Novak is far from telling the full story about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame; here's the first item by Justin Rood about Novak allegedly communicating with Karl Rove after the investigation began for purposes Novak seem not to have explained:

Here are a couple good questions for Robert Novak: How good is your legal advice? And how good are you at following it?

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One of those rules, as Waas noted in his May 25 piece, is that once an investigation has begun, potential witnesses should not communicate....

And here's the second item from TPMMuckraker, also by Justin Rood:

Trying to dodge criticism for his role in outing Valerie Plame, columnist Bob Novak last night attacked a National Journal story by Murray Waas on Fox's Hannity & Colmes. "I know that the Murray Waas piece in the National Journal, which interestingly was not picked up by anybody, was totally wrong and a total lie," he said.

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In truth, two major news outlets confirmed the National Journal story the same day it was published, May 25.

Rood goes on to give links to MSNBC and Bloomberg, both confirming the story by Murray Waas about a conversation between Rove and Novak after the investigation started. Novak seems to have trouble with facts and honest behavior but he excuses himself because after all he's a big shot and you can say anything you want on Fox News if you're a right wing Republican. But he's still squirming. Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame have just filed a lawsuit over the Valerie Plame leak and the attempt by several Bush administration figures to shut up whistleblower Joe Wilson. In my book, Joe Wilson is a hero. And so's his wife.