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Washington Monthly, Dec, 2005 by Charles Peters
For two years, people have been trying to identify the source for Robert Novak's revelation about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. There was a time when it wasn't so difficult to figure out who was talking to Novak. During his first two decades as a columnist, he relied on three main sources: Lawrence O'Brien, the Kennedy-Johnson political operative who became chairman of the Democratic National Committee and had his office burglarized during Watergate; Melvin Laird, the prominent Republican congressman who became Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense; and another DNC Chairman, Robert Strauss.
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Not only were their fingerprints all over many of the columns Novakwrote with his partner Rowland Evans, but they were also consistently rewarded with praise from Evans and Novak, a practice Novak did not abandon when he continued the column on his own. A more recent source, Bob Shrum, is usually described in terms like, "a brilliant political strategist."
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