Pressure Mounts on Novak to Give Full Account of Plame Role

[sabra]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001013416

Pressure Mounts on Novak to Give Full Account of Plame Role
Robert Novak

NEW YORK Until recently, commentators have generally supported Robert Novak's right to remain silent on his involvement in the leaking of a covert CIA officer's name. But the mood may be changing.

The Denver Post, in an editorial posted Wednesday on its Web site, urged Novak "to give a public accounting" of what led to his 2003 column outing CIA operative Valerie Plame.

So E&P asked various columnists and editors who run his column if they agreed with the Post's suggestion.

Richard Reeves does. "Unless there's some terrible secret that would hurt Robert Novak more than the credibility he has lost, I would think he should write about this," said the Universal Press Syndicate columnist.

Cal Thomas also feels Novak -- who's with the Chicago Sun-Times and Creators Syndicate -- should discuss the Plame matter more. "You can't be a 'partial virgin,'" said the Tribune Media Services columnist. "Now that he has spoken about one aspect of the case, he should talk about the rest of it." Thomas was referring to the Aug. 1 Novak column in which he disputed an ex-CIA spokesman's statement about the Plame case.

[Carni]

1. OMG I thought your title read "Pleasure mounts on Novak"

You want to talk about doing a double take at a post title LOL

Now that I see the REAL title and have read the article I have to wonder what the old coot will do under pressure!

[H2O Man]

2. Yikes!

Is "Pleasure" another of Scooter Libby's nicknames?

[Carni]

4. Ugly visuals abound! ACK! eom

[BrotherBuzz]

3. "Unless there's some terrible secret that would hurt Robert Novak...

more than the credibility he has lost, I would think he should write about this," - Richard Reeves

Ouch! LOL

[Ron Green]

5. He's been a whore from the very beginning.

He's so much more interested in himself as a business than in any kind of journalistic standard.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/08/11/novak/index.html

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Ol' Bob will probably be wanting to spend more time w/family

in the coming days.

[Supersedeas]

7. a partial virgin??? Novak???