Bob Novak Cited After Hitting Pedestrian

[QFIT]

The right-wing columnist that outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, was just involved in a hit and run incident. After ramming a pedestrian, legally crossing a street in DC, he kept driving his Corvette and said he didn't notice the event. (According to witnesses, he didn't notice a man plastered against his windshield.) In the past, Novak was heard to state "I really hate jaywalkers. I despise them. Since I don't run the country, all I can do is yell at 'em. The other option is to run 'em over, but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that."

The 66 year-old pedestrian was not jay-walking. His injuries were minor. But there is no way that Novak could have known that.

Article at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n4286279.shtml

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by QFIT

The right-wing columnist that outed CIA agent Valerie Plame...

SHE WASN'T OUTED, GODDAMN IT!!! EVERY-F**KING-ONE ALREADY KNEW SHE WAS CIA!!! --zASLANg

[QFIT]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

SHE WASN'T OUTED, GODDAMN IT!!! EVERY-F**KING-ONE ALREADY KNEW SHE WAS CIA!!! --zASLANg

For 20 years she managed to stay covert. Until Armitage started telling everybody with a press badge. Of course the right-wing apologists trying to pretend nothing happened have spread the lie that everyone knew.

[zengrifter]

Back to Novack - he was "cited"?
Sounds like felony hit and run is just a minor traffick violation for some. zg

[N&B]

Agreed ZG, after the Hartford, CT incident that made the headlines, we should put his head in a vice.

OTOH: us regular civvies didn't know! Knowledge is power, keeping one's mouth shut is strength. Someone in the WH got pissed off and went thru channels.

[Automatic Monkey]

Originally Posted by QFIT

For 20 years she managed to stay covert. Until Armitage started telling everybody with a press badge. Of course the right-wing apologists trying to pretend nothing happened have spread the lie that everyone knew.

Before you said Novak outed her. Now it's Armitage? That was quick.

[QFIT]

Originally Posted by Automatic Monkey

Before you said Novak outed her. Now it's Armitage? That was quick.

Armitage was the United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department and two steps down from Bush. He was the White House leak that outed her to the press. Of the several reporters he told, Novak was the only reporter to publish it. When it came out in Novak's column, the CIA filed a formal report to the Justice Dept. that a covert CIA agent had been outed.

[Automatic Monkey]

Originally Posted by QFIT

Armitage was the United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department and two steps down from Bush. He was the White House leak that outed her to the press. Of the several reporters he told, Novak was the only reporter to publish it. When it came out in Novak's column, the CIA filed a formal report to the Justice Dept. that a covert CIA agent had been outed.

Is it not a reporter's job to publish what he learns? He has no way to know what is classified and what is not, and apparently there is reasonable doubt as to whether she was still considered undercover or not.

Besides, the New York Times has no hesitation to leak classified documents, at least not when it will hurt the US.

[QFIT]

Originally Posted by Automatic Monkey

Is it not a reporter's job to publish what he learns? He has no way to know what is classified and what is not, and apparently there is reasonable doubt as to whether she was still considered undercover or not.

Besides, the New York Times has no hesitation to leak classified documents, at least not when it will hurt the US.

The CIA filed a complaint with the Justice Dept. stating that she was a covert agent. Why would they have done that if she was not covert? The CIA stated that she was a covert agent for 20 years and was outed. No one has demonstrated that this is not true.

The NYTimes published papers that demonstrated unconstitutional behavior by a succession of presidents including a secret war against Laos. And of course there was hesitation. But, the NYT lawyer believed the press had a First Amendment right to publish information significant to the people's understanding of their government's policy. And yes that is their job.

Novak published the completely irrelevant fact that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent to get back at a man, her husband, that wrote a report he didn't like. It was a purely malicious act with no info at all on the people's understanding of their government's policy. The info had only one use, to harm a person. The cowardly act of attacking someone's wife because he told the truth. The other reporters Armitage talked to did not publish.

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Columnist Robert Novak diagnosed with brain tumor 1 hour, 2 minutes ago



BOSTON - Syndicated columnist and former "Crossfire" host Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is suspending his journalistic work.
Novak issued a statement Monday saying the tumor was found Sunday after he had been rushed to Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital from Cape Cod, where he was visiting his daughter.

The Chicago Sun-Times columnist says he is suspending his journalistic work for an indefinite, "but God willing, not too lengthy period." His statement did not say if the tumor was malignant.

Novak was the first to publicly reveal the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Last week he was given a $50 citation after he struck a homeless man with his black Corvette in Washington. Novak kept going until he was stopped by a bicyclist.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/...ak_brain_tumor