The Novak Affair

october 9, 2003  11:02 am
The Novak Affair
David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation, was the first journalist to report that a July 14 piece by conservative columnist Robert Novak was potential evidence of a possible White House crime. In that article, Novak, citing “senior administration officials,” disclosed that the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson was a CIA operative. In a piece this week for LA Weekly, Corn explains how he broke the CIA-leak story, and why nobody noticed.