Bob Novak is a traitor to America

Bob Novak was specifically told by the spokesman for the CIA on two occassions NOT to use Valerie Plame's name in his story. Novak went ahead and did so as part of the administration's attack on her husband, Joe Wilson. In publishing Valerie Plame's name, Bob Novak committed Treason against America.

Here is the relevent excerpt from the story from the Washingtom Post:

Harlow, the former CIA spokesman, said in an interview yesterday that he testified last year before a grand jury about conversations he had with Novak at least three days before the column was published. He said he warned Novak, in the strongest terms he was permitted to use without revealing classified information, that Wilson's wife had not authorized the mission and that if he did write about it, her name should not be revealed.

Harlow said that after Novak's call, he checked Plame's status and confirmed that she was an undercover operative. He said he called Novak back to repeat that the story Novak had related to him was wrong and that Plame's name should not be used. But he did not tell Novak directly that she was undercover because that was classified.

In a column published Oct. 1, 2003, Novak wrote that the CIA official he spoke to "asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause 'difficulties' if she travels abroad. He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name."

Novak's lame excuse that he was not told she would be endangered is just that - a lame excuse for committing treason.

We should not forget that Novak committed his treason while carrying water for Karl Rove's effort to smear Joe Wilson.