CIA Leak Case Watch: Bob Novak – “President Knows Leak Source”

Karl Rove and Bob Novak, who first published the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, says he is confident that President George W. Bush knows who leaked Plame’s name.

The ASSociated Press has Bob Novak Says President Knows Leak Source

Columnist Bob Novak, who first published the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, says he is confident that President Bush knows who leaked Plame’s name.

Novak said that “I’d be amazed” if the president didn’t know the source’s identity and that the public should “bug the president as to whether he should reveal who the source is.”

Novak’s remarks, reported in the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer, came during a question and answer session Tuesday after a speech sponsored by the John Locke Foundation, a conservative think tank.

Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer urged Bush to identify Novak’s source or to say that he does not know who it is.

Flap bets the response is “Executive Privilege” and neither confirmation nor denial.

Let the fishing expedition of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald waste more taxpayers’ money.