Novak's 'Prince' dishes on dustups and dirt in D.C.

Political columnist looks back over long career, addresses Plame leak

In Novak's account, it was all in a day's work: A long-scheduled interview with State Department official Richard Armitage yields up a tasty tidbit he lodges in his memory. A call to his old friend Karl Rove confirms it. And a third-source public relations specialist at the CIA does not deny it (or ask him to withhold the information).

It's noteworthy that when he did publish the item, Novak buried it in the sixth paragraph. This has always been ... Full Story »

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Benjamin Buttons
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by Benjamin Buttons - Oct. 1, 2008

There is no new information in this piece, contrary to what a previous reviewer indicates. There is the impression given of new information, most likely in the service of assisting Novak's book sales. There hasn't been a new piece of information in this story since, apparently, prior to Fitzgerald's appointment. There has been the controlled release of misleading bits of information, designed to manufacture a scandal and keep a story going, but that is not the same thing as news.

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