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<div class="date">Monday, September 29, 2003</div>

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<div class="posttitle">NOVAK ON THE CIA HULLABALOO</div> 

<blockquote>
'Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this. In July I was interviewing a senior administration official on Ambassador Wilson's report when he told me the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing. As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in Washington I do not reveal confidential sources. When I called the CIA in July to confirm Mrs. Wilson's involvement in the mission for her husband -- he is a former Clinton administration official -- they asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operator, and not in charge of undercover operatives'... 

<p>-- <a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/">DRUDGE REPORT </a><br />
</blockquote></p>

<p>And if you read the first <a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030714.shtml">Novak column</a> it doesn't actually say that the two "senior administration officials" told him Plame was with the CIA, only that they told him it was her idea to send Wilson.</p>

<blockquote>
Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.
</blockquote>

<p>Of course this says nothing about the claims that 2 admin officials called up 6 different reporters and leaked her name.</p>

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