CNN Dowdifies Novak Quotes

CNN Dowdifies Novak Quotes

By rearranging the order of quotes made by Robert Novak concerning Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, CNN makes it sound like the White house asked him (Novak) not to use her name in a story. Actually, it was the CIA who made that request after Novak called them to confirm some information.

CNN.com - Novak: Administration didn't 'call me to leak this' - Sep. 30, 2003

'Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this,' Novak said on CNN's 'Crossfire,' of which he is a co-host. 'There is no great crime here.'

'They asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative and not in charge of undercover operators,' Novak said.