Yer talking about people who "outed" a covert CIA agent just to get even with her husband.
And they don't have the wherewithal to be outraged.
No bounds, no morals, no sense of class. So, if the Clarke info were derogatory, they'd leak it. Novak would publish it, and then they would have a big "to-do" about finding the leaker.
Wouldn't find him/her, though, because the info was too widely known.
Arf