Robert Novak's desperate damage control
The conservative columnist's attempts to downplay the Valerie Plame scandal are raising more questions than they answer.
"Classic strawman defense"
Eric Boehlert: "[R]ather than sit back and watch the fireworks he helped set off, Novak, busy spinning on behalf of the White House and in classic damage control mode, is raising more questions than he's answering, and having a hard time keeping his stories straight.
"At least three key points of Novak's argument have all proven faulty: that the CIA officer in question is simply an analyst, not an undercover operative, so no harm came from making her identity known; that it was her idea to get her husband involved in investigation claims about Saddam Hussein; and that the unfolding leak investigation is 'routine'."
October 2, 2003
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