INTIMIGATE Novak's Duplicity

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INTIMIGATE Novak's Duplicity
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Tue, 09-14-2004 - 12:57pm
In a move of stunning hypocrisy this weekend, journalist Bob Novak went on CNN to demand CBS News reveal the confidential sources which gave them President Bush's National Guard records.

On the Capital Gang, Novak, who has strenusously claimed his right as a reporter not to reveal his sources to law enforcement officials in the leak of an undercover CIA agent, said, “I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got these documents from.” He then repeated himself: “I think they should say where they got these documents.”

The Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt was perplexed, asking Novak, “You're saying CBS should reveal its source?” He replied, “Yes.”

Hunt asked again, “You think reporters ought to reveal sources?” Novak, then embarrassed said, “No, no. Wait a minute...I'm just saying in that case.”

Hunt summed up, “So in some cases, reporters ought to reveal sources?” Novak replied, “Yes.”

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/11/cg.00.html


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000591250

Hilarious. Mr. "I'll never reveal my sources" now tries to intimidate CBS into revealing their sources. This defines chutzpah. The White House must be in a 4-alarm panic if they risk making Novak look so ridiculous.

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Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Registered: 09-02-2004
Fri, 09-17-2004 - 2:59pm
Thanks, I appreciate you takeing them time to talk with me about this.I enjoy your post, and I know that you and I have diffrent views, but I still enjoy hearing what you have to say. I am reading a book called " what we have lost" there is something I wanted to ask your opinion on. Bear with me its a long quote.

" Seven months after the start of the Iraq war, there were still aproximately forty thousand soldiers-nearly a third of the troops there-without Interceptor vest, designed to stop a round from an AK-47, the most common auto rifle in the world ( in some units, one vest was being shared among several soliders.) Most US troops where supplied with vest, but many of them where from the Vietnam-era flack jackets designed to protect the wearer from shrapnel. not modern ammunition.Interceptors are made of Kevlar. They are a third lighter than the old ones and have pockets for ceramic plates to protect vital organs. the difference between having a vest and not having one, Ben Gonzalez, chief of the emergency room at the Twenty-eight combat support hospital in Bagdad, told The Washington Post," is between being hit with a fist or with a knife." We have a near half-trillion-dollar defense budget, one would think that at a time of war the pentagon would have spent the est $60 million to provide safe, modern vest for those forty thousand soldiers who did't have them." " In wars past, parents of soldiers sent their kids chocolate bars, cookies, photos, and other mementos of home." " In the wake of the Iraq invasion, parents of American soldiers scoured the Internet looking for Interceptor vest. ( about $1,500. retail ) they could send over seas. One mother, Suzanne Werflman an elementary school teacher in Sciota, Pennsylvania bought one for her son, who was spending twenty months in Iraq. This was told to USA Today, " Murphy's unit was eventually given some Interceptor Vest weeks after they arrived in Iraq, but they where missing the porcelin plates. So then His mom had to buy the plates for $650.00 more than her weekly salary. and she sent them to her son so he would have basic protection. Workers at one Interceptor plant said they where deluged with calls from parents trying to buy vest and plates for their sons and daughters oversea's. When Turley, a George Washington Law School professor, called the pentagon to talk about the vest, a procurment officer told him that the Interceptor vest were " non-priority items, like tents". This is sick. what is wrong with our Goverment? If I am going to pay all of these taxs dollars, they had better be protecting my soldiers. Not to mention the Humvees. Local towns have had to place extra metal plates in door and floors without the goverments help so their sons and daughters would be some what safer. What do you think about this?

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