BREAKING: Novak Outs Former CIA Spokesman As ‘Confirming’ Source On Plame

Tonight on MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews revealed that Bob Novak’s “confirming” source for Valerie Plame’s undercover CIA identity was former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow.

Transcript:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Bob Novak’s going to go on television tomorrow and give away one of the sources in the infamous Valerie Plame leak story. It’s going to be Bill Harlow, the spokesman for the CIA all those years. He’s going to identify him as one of his sources, apparently the other source is still maintaining his deep background sourcing role here. … Bob Novak’s office has just now confirmed to Hardball that his confirming source — that’s the one that said, “So you heard,” and backed up the initial source — in learning about Valerie Plame’s identity with the CIA, her undercover identity, was Bill Harlow, the former CIA Public Information Officer. Bill Harlow himself hasn’t commented so far.

Recall, Bill Harlow was the former CIA spokesman who repeatedly urged Novak that he was not to use Plame’s identity. From the Washington Post, 7/27/05:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/11/novak-plame/