Ah, the power of free-association

Robert Novak’s column in the Chicago Sun-Times from Monday begins with this revealing lede:

“It was not merely a leak from the normally leak-proof Bush White House.”

No, it wasn’t. Someone picked up the phone and called you to leak the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame as an act of politicaal vengeance against her husband. They wanted you to print it and out Plame. Which you did. Now, almost two years later to the day, two other reporters may be going to jail for refusing to disclose the same source who leaked to you.

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