p - please do not read. It contradicts your notion it was essentially a hoax. But it does show how liberals lives are meaningless to conservatives. If Clinton had done this - - - , you['d stll be clucking.

Time for Novak to take responsibility (Dan Abrams)

"Imagine this: Someone leaks a covert CIA operative's name to a reporter, likely in an effort to embarrass her husband. The reporter publishes the name in a column and then as the investigation into the source of the leak wraps up, that reporter appears to be in the clear, but another reporter who never even published the name is facing jail time for failing to disclose her source.

"That is the absurd result of the ongoing investigation into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's name.

"I say it's time for the reporter, Robert Novak, to take some responsibility for the mess he's created. His media colleagues Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matt Cooper of Time magazine have been ordered jailed for refusing to tell a grand jury who told them about Plame.

"Miller never published the name and Cooper published it on the Time Website only after Novak made it public. Yet, they're running out of legal options. This week, they lost their final appeal in the federal court of appeals, an appeal to the U.S. SupremeCourt is now their only hope. Yet Novak still refuses even to say whether he disclosed his sources, putting Miller and Cooper at a distinct legal disadvantage."