Novak: No Bush Administration Effort to Discredit Joe Wilson

This headline reflects the fact-finding conclusion of the prosecutor Fitzgerald and Novak.

WASHINGTON — The senior Bush administration official who gave Robert Novak information about former CIA officer Valerie Plame's role in sending her husband, Amb. Joe Wilson, to Niger in 2002 was not trying to discredit Wilson, the columnist told FOX News on Wednesday.
Novak also said he doesn't believe the senior administration official, whom Novak referred to as "Mr. X," had the conversation with him about Wilson's fact-finding mission on Iraq's nuclear weapons program as part of a "conscious effort to manipulate me."
"I saw no such campaign. Nobody in the administration ever said anything critical about Wilson to me," he said.
Mr. X told Novak that Wilson's "wife worked in the office of nuclear proliferation in the CIA, and she suggested he go. That was it," Novak said.
He added that he was later told by CIA Public Information Officer Bill Harlow that Plame didn't initiate the trip but once she was asked about it, she suggested her husband be sent. A Senate Intelligence Committee report later concluded that Plame played an important role in getting Wilson sent to Africa.
Novak said he also interviewed Bush political adviser Karl Rove to discuss the trip by Wilson and to confirm that Plame was involved in sending Wilson there.
Novak said when he asked Rove about Plame, Rove responded, "Oh, you know that too."
"I took that as a confirmation that she worked at the CIA and initiated" the trip, Novak said.

Looks like the reason for Rove’s several visits to the grand jury might be a result of the words ‘heard’ and ‘know’.

Fitzgerald knew of both Mr X and Rove’s involvement and has concluded no crime has been committed by Rove and no crime of the said allegations against the Bush administration has occurred.

The problem with Donald’s article and headline is it’s all spin not reflecting Novak’s conclusion. It is a continued attempt by democrat media to bash the Bush administration for anything they can dream up with the help of democratic politicians vainly searching for impeachment intimidation.

The Patriot Act with it’s police state, prescription drugs plan will hurt seniors, NSA is wiretapping all Americans, tax cuts won’t work, Swift is illegal, culture of corruption superiority and the Flame leak have all failed in their attempt to discredit the Bush administration.

With the republicans are bad for the country talk, I wonder what if the democrats instead of their exhaustive impeachment pursuits would have spent that energy on finding constructive ways to make life better for the average American, thus working with the Bush administration, would the country would be better off?

Is Mr. X Libby?