Whose Line Is It Anyway?
This is an old-fashioned Watergate-style scandal about unscrupulous nincompoops in high places. Every editor confounded by how to play the lies and distortions peddled to justify a war in Iraq that might have been a good idea regardless can go to town on this one.
Q: Wasn’t that the case where Abdon Pallasch and another Sun-Times reporter were writing a book about an FBI informant who ratted out a Real IRA leader?
A: Exactly.
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Q: So Pallasch almost goes to jail in a piddling case where a lawyer’s on a fishing expedition and there’s probably nothing in the notes and everyone knows it. Novak’s hiding the identity of “senior administration officials” who outed a CIA worker to him, apparently violating federal law and maybe damaging national security–but nobody’s going to try to make Novak talk. Is there some irony here?
Q: Does Novak have any regrets?
Q: Well, isn’t that important to know?
