Reply #4: Video - PBS News Hour Novak outs Plame source; also Gannon - 2/24

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Video - PBS News Hour Novak outs Plame source; also Gannon - 2/24

Leher reports that Novak has given up his source for CIA operative, Valerie Plame, to Federal Prosecutors. They suggest that a defense for the source will be that the source did not know that Plame was currently or had been an operative. Under the law, a person must know that the person being exposed has been an operative in the last 5 1/2 years. The source will claim that they did not know that Plame had been an operative thus getting off the hook for committing this crime.

The Federal prosecutors are still pursuing the sources of other journalists from Time and The New York Times. The court has ruled that these journalist will go to jail if they do not reveal their sources. It is reported that the Federal prosecutor wants the sources of other "leakers" to try to establish a pattern of behavior within the White House.



Video in Real Media format (7 minutes):
http://www.edwardsdavid.com/BushVideos/newshour_plame_novak_gannon_050224-01.rm