Robert Novak Dies
August 18th, 2009 Posted in UncategorizedMore than a year after being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, conservative columnist Robert Novak has died.
Novak had been a commentator for CNN for 25 years, most often appearing as co-host of “Crossfire.”
According to CNN’s obituary of Novak, “In 2003, he found himself at the center of the scandal over the exposure of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, when he published a column revealing her CIA status days after her husband challenged a key Bush administration justification for the invasion of Iraq. The scandal ultimately led to the conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators probing the leak.”
Novak was 78.