no one is going to pay, we ALL know this

except for that one little stooge, scooter. the REAL guilty parties will never come to justice. and what of novak? his ass deserves to fry as well (figuratively speaking of course).

Plame Was Still Covert at Time of CIA Leak
By E&P Staff Published: February 03, 2006 5:30 PM ET updated Sunday
NEW YORK At long last, some of the famously "redacted" eight pages in a 2005 federal court ruling on the CIA leak case have surfaced, after a long court legal by The Wall Street Journal. The pages provide new details relating to grand jury testimony -- or hoped-for testimony -- provided by journalists Matt Cooper, Judith Miller, Tim Russert, and Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Newsweek reported Sunday that the court papers could put holes in the defense of Libby in the Valerie Plame case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, "have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House critic Joe Wilson, really had covert status when she was outed to the media in July 2003," Newsweek's Michael Isikoff notes. "But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done 'covert work overseas' on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA 'was making specific efforts to conceal' her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge's opinion." The papers also reveal that Libby told prosecutors that Cheney had informed him "in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion" in mid-June 2003 about the identity of Plame. ..........