On September 11, 2003, I was introduced to Robert Novak at a Goldwater Institute luncheon.
I had been discussing Novak's Valerie Plame column in which he had
described her as a "CIA operative," on The Charles Goyette Show since
its first appearance in July. I felt that the implications of Novak's
column were serious - that it had the fingerprints of the Bush
administration attempting to discredit Joe Wilson, a critic of the Iraq
war - and that it was not getting the kind of media attention it
deserved -- not unlike the Downing Street memos.
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