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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Cooper and Miller. Otherwise, it shouldn't.

that's why the story has play--but the investigation is ongoing, and the pressure to name a counsel arose without them

Well, (i) that specifically names her by name and (ii) leaves out the more important H/W angle

right, she could be named if it was common knowledge. But it wasn't which is why there's an issue at all. Why is the husband/wife issue matter at all? Say that they were just polticially aligned? Wilson's trip was backed by a sympathetic agent within CIA? There are many ways around specifically identifying her and still discrediting the report, all that come a lot less close to breaking the law

Because the talk shows gave Joe "Let me tell you about a report I never saw" Wilson a platform to rant and rave.

as I said, it wasn't common knowledge

Was it even a scoop? He tossed of her name in his column in a very off-hand way.

Apparently Novak, like Rove, isn't very familiar with the gravity of disclosing an agent's name. That, or he assumed no one would ever disclose a covert agent's name, so having been told it it must not be that big a deal. Obviously Rove picked the right dupe.