NYT:Novak Told Prosecutor His Sources in Leak Case

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The journalist who first identified the intelligence officer at the center of the C.I.A. leak case says he later voluntarily identified three sources to the prosecutor in the case, who, he says, had already learned of his conversations with each of the three.

In his syndicated column being published Wednesday, the journalist, Robert D. Novak, confirms that two of his sources were Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and Bill Harlow, then a spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, both of whose roles in the case are already widely known. Mr. Novak does not disclose his primary source, saying this official has not come forward publicly.

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In Wednesday’s column, which circulated over the Internet on Tuesday evening, Mr. Novak said his decision to discuss his sources with Mr. Fitzgerald had been made reluctantly, after he realized that the prosecutor had learned independently of those sources and his lawyers had advised him that he faced a costly and probably unsuccessful legal fight if he refused to cooperate.

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His new column confirms what he hinted at in a previous one: that although he had been told that Mr. Wilson’s wife was a C.I.A. officer, he learned her name from reading the former ambassador’s entry in Who’s Who in America. It identified her as Valerie Plame.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/washington/12leak.html?hp&ex=1152763200&en=3f66c8d490d5cad6&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[uppityperson]

1. I am sooo tired of Plames Name deceptions

The problem is not her name but the fact that she was outed. oh dang, told myself to get off du and not respond to any of these Novak threads but would I listen? Nooooooo.

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