How did robert novak give away a CIA agent's identity

[Wesley_Clark]

How and when did he give away the identity of a CIA operative for political motives?

[Wesley_Clark]

Meaning, what is the story behind it. When did he do it & where did he get the info.

[Scruloose]

This article should sum it up.

[Squink]

@Scruloose

This article should sum it up.

It should have, but it doesn’t. It’s taken a special prosecutor with a grand jury two years to start to get to the bottom of it.
Matt Cooper’s Source, from BEFORE the Novak article came out (Newsweek, Today):

Cooper wrote that Rove offered him a “big warning” not to “get too far out on Wilson.” Rove told Cooper that Wilson’s trip had not been authorized by “DCIA”—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, “it was, KR said, wilson’s wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip.” Wilson’s wife is Plame, then an undercover agent working as an analyst in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations counterproliferation division.