Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Novak's Damning Quote
From the archives of The Freedom of Information Center, Columnist Names CIA Iraq Operative
By Timothy M. Phelps and Knut Royce
New York Newsday
July 21, 2003.
Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me," he said. "They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it."
Novak reported that his "two senior administration officials" told him that it was Plame who suggested sending her husband, Wilson, to Niger.
A senior intelligence official confirmed that Plame was a Directorate of Operations undercover officer who worked "alongside" the operations officers who asked her husband to travel to Niger.
