In his article, Robert Novak says:
Joe Wilson’s wife’s role in instituting her husband’s mission was revealed to me in the middle of a long interview with an official who I have previously said was not a political gunslinger. After the federal investigation was announced, he told me through a third party that the disclosure was inadvertent on his part.
However, on Jan. 12, two days before my meeting with Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor informed Hamilton that he would be bringing to the Swidler Berlin offices only two waivers. One was by my principal source in the Valerie Wilson column, a source whose name has not yet been revealed. The other was by presidential adviser Karl Rove, whom I interpret as confirming my primary source’s information. In other words, the special prosecutor knew the names of my sources.
The "through a third party" and the fact that Fitzgerald knew so early suggests the possibility of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Wolfowitz, Armitage – somebody big. My current guess is that Novak heard it before Wilson’s oped [July 6, 2993], but jumped on it when Wilson’s article came out. The inadverdent part sounds like what Woodward said too about his source [and maybe Pincus?]. All three from the same person?
The point here is that the male official non-gunslinger inadverdent C.I.A. leaker‘s identity in the American People’s business! We need to know "who" he was so we can see if we believe this innocent little story.
Right now, I don’t feel trusting about Novak’s anything…
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