{"id":3464,"date":"2005-07-16T02:33:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T09:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/16\/david-corn-headed-for-prison\/"},"modified":"2005-07-16T02:33:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-16T09:33:14","slug":"david-corn-headed-for-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/16\/david-corn-headed-for-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"David Corn headed for prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIt turns out that the Plame leaker wasn’t Judith Miller, it was David Corn:<\/a><\/p>\n

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May notes that in Bob Novak’s column that first outed Valerie Wilson, Novak described her as “an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.” He argues that this did not reveal Valerie Wilson as a truly undercover CIA officer–what’s known as a NOC (an officer under “nonofficial cover”). He then points out that when I wrote about the Novak column two days later, I referred to Valerie Wilson as “a U.S. intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital important to national security.” Breathlessly, May writes, “Since Novak did not report that Plame was ‘working covertly’ how did Corn know that’s what she had been doing?” His answer: Joseph Wilson must have told me when I interviewed him after the Novak leak. Thus, Valerie Wilson was really outed by me because Joe Wilson leaked to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Larry O’Donnell would be an appropriate cell mate for him.<\/p>\n

Cliff May summarizes:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The facts are these: (1) Bob Novak did not say that Valerie Plame was a secret agent; (2) David Corn did; (3) we don\u2019t know who Bob\u2019s sources were; (4) we know David\u2019s source was Joe Wilson. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s clear enough.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out that the Plame leaker wasn’t Judith Miller, it was David Corn: May notes that in Bob Novak’s column that first outed Valerie Wilson, Novak described her as “an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.” He argues that this did not reveal Valerie Wilson as a truly undercover CIA officer–what’s known as … Continue reading “David Corn headed for prison”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-TS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}