Novak Says Plame/Wilson Suit Will Be Dismissed

Novak Says Plame/Wilson Suit Will Be Dismissed www.wilsonsupport.org

In an interview to be aired this weekend on Bloomberg's "Political Capital with Al Hunt," Bob Novak says that the civil suit Plame and her husband brought against Vice President Cheney, his former aide and White House adviser Karl Rove probably will probably be thrown out.

MR. HUNT: - for the last word. Valerie Plame and her husband have filed a suit against Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove, one of your sources, the indicted Cheney aide, Scooter Libby. What are you going to do if they try to haul you before that trial and get you to identify the one you source you haven't identified?

MR. NOVAK: Well, that would be the whole question of whether I would even adhere to a subpoena. I am sure there will be motions to throw this suit out of court. the lawyers I talk to say that this is a very unusual case, and I think that the Wilsons may have trouble maintaining this suit; not having it thrown out.

MR. HUNT: A number of people who would defend not only your right to publish a column but say, hey, there was - (inaudible) - still ask, why was it necessary to identify her and the fact that she was a CIA operative.

MR. NOVAK: When I talked to the primary source on a long - hour-long interview about - covering many things, I got into the question, which was the hot story of the time, of the ambassador's mission to Niger. And in the course of it I said, why in the world would they send - would the CIA send Joe Wilson there? He has not an intelligence background, he hasn't had any contact in Africa for a long time. I just know then that he is also an anti-Bush partisan. So my source said, well, his wife, who works for the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA suggested it.

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