from cnn.com:
'"Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this," Novak said on CNN's "Crossfire," of which he is a co-host. "There is no great crime here."
but 'Novak said Monday that he was working on the column when a senior administration official told him the CIA asked Wilson to go to Niger in early 2002 at the suggestion of his wife, whom the source described as "a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction."
'Another senior administration official gave him the same information, Novak said, and the CIA confirmed her involvement in her husband's mission.'
'"[The CIA] asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else." Novak said.'
'The Washington Post quoted a "senior administration official" in a story Sunday as saying that two top White House officials disclosed the identity of Wilson's wife in calls to at least six Washington journalists. Novak was the only recipient of the information who published it, the Post reported.'
thick as a brick? or just a dick?