Robert Novak comes out swinging

From Townhall: “The CIA Leak”

To protect my own integrity and credibility, I would like to stress three points. First, I did not receive a planned leak. Second, the CIA never warned me that the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency would endanger her or anybody else. Third, it was not much of a secret.

I still think Novak should have kept the name secret but any reasonable person (i.e. non-Democrats) could see that this was more an inadvertent slip than a planned leak.