An interesting TIME cover story on the debate about a presidential pardon for Scooter Libby includes this passage:
Cheney’s former top aide on domestic and foreign policy stood accused of obstructing a federal investigation into the source of an egregious media leak: the identity of an undercover CIA officer named Valerie Plame. Her husband Joseph Wilson, a former diplomat, had written an Op-Ed for the New York Times in July 2003 claiming to have evidence that the Administration had lied to bolster the case for war in Iraq. Within days, in an effort to discredit Wilson’s story, a conservative columnist had revealed the identify of Wilson’s wife. Plame’s “outing” was seen by her husband and his fellow Democrats as an act of revenge orchestrated by Cheney himself ? and the most extreme example of how far an Administration would go to cover its tracks in a war gone bad.
Missing from that history are some important facts. For one, Plame was not undercover. Second, the ?conservative columnist,? Robert Novak, revealed to federal prosecutors that his secret source was a man totally unconnected to Cheney and Libby.
You might remember the John Locke Foundation?s role in this case.
Click play below to hear Novak recount that role during his July 2007 JLF Headliner appearance.
