W AWOL from the TANG, but the military loves him. Hmmmm.

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Postby lukpac » Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:21 pm

This is somewhat amusing:

Robert Novak Believes in Revealing Confidential Sources, After All


By Greg Mitchell

Published: September 13, 2004 11:00 AM EDT

NEW YORK Syndicated columnist Robert Novak apparently believes that the principle of not revealing confidential sources is rather flexible.

The man who has stood on this principle for months, in deflecting calls for him to identify who in the Bush administration "outed" CIA operative Valerie Plame, said this weekend on national television that CBS should release the name of its source for the documents at the center of the dispute over its recent program on President Bush's National Guard service.

On the CNN panel show, "Capital Gang," Novak expressed grave doubts about the CBS documents, then said: "I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got these documents from. They didn't get them from a CIA agent. I don't believe there was any laws involved. I don't think we'll have a special prosecutor, if they tell. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS ...."

Fellow panelist, Al Hunt, from the Wall Street Journal, then replied: "Robert Novak, you're saying CBS should reveal its source?"

The transcript continues:

NOVAK: Yes.

HUNT: You do? You think reporters ought to reveal sources?

NOVAK: No, no. Wait a minute.

HUNT: I'm just asking.

NOVAK: I'm just saying in that case.

HUNT: Oh.

NOVAK: I think -- I think it's very important. If this is a phony document, the American -- the people should know about it.

HUNT: So in some cases, reporters ought to reveal sources.

NOVAK: Yes.

HUNT: But not in all cases.

NOVAK: That's right.

HUNT: OK. Mark Shields, what's the relevance of all this?

SHIELDS: A point well taken, Al.

Greg Mitchell (gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com) is editor of E&P and author of seven books on politics and history.
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Postby Rspaight » Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:44 am

What a hack.

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Postby krabapple » Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:33 am

He's thoroughly loathsome...though he seems almost charming compared to Charles Krauthammer.
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Re: W AWOL from the TANG, but the military loves him. Hmmmm

Postby Rspaight » Fri Nov 08, 2013 5:36 pm

Nine years later, the truth starts to emerge...

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/truth ... fullpage=1
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Postby lukpac » Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:17 am

Rspaight wrote:Nine years later, the truth starts to emerge...

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/truth ... fullpage=1


Sigh:

"Walter V. Robinson, the Boston Globe reporter whose 2000 investigation had triggered much of the subsequent reporting, agreed. “The CBS story, and the furor that caused, buried the story so deeply that you couldn’t possibly disinter it in 2004,” he told me. “Inevitably, the only candidate who ended up with a serious credibility problem about his military service was John Kerry, who had absolutely nothing to hide or be ashamed of. To me, in a close election—and it was a close election—who knows, that could have been the difference.”"
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