Don't Bug Me

Bob Novak [despite the fact that he wrote the piece outing undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, which has led to the indictment of the Vice President's chief of staff, and an ongoing criminal investigation] says "Don't Bug Me! Don't Bug Woodward! Bug the President!"

Newspaper columnist Robert Novak is still not naming his source in the Valerie Plame affair, but he says he is pretty sure the name is no mystery to President Bush.

"I'm confident the president knows who the source is," Novak told a luncheon audience at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh on Tuesday. "I'd be amazed if he doesn't."

"So I say, 'Don't bug me. Don't bug Bob Woodward. Bug the president as to whether he should reveal who the source is.' "

Grumpy Mr. Novak is fed up with the constant pestering. But he, again, refocuses that spotlight at the very highest levels of the Administration in this ongoing case.