Robert Novak Cracking Under Pressure?

A lot of people were surprised by columnist Robert Novak's recent hissy fit on CNN's Inside Politics, where he said, on air, “That's bulls**t” and walked off the set. Some people were not surprised. Novak is been under a lot of pressure because his Conservative buddy Karl Rove has been taking a lot of flack since he's been revealed as the leak who named Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA operative. With two journalists in trouble because they refused to reveal their source (one for a story that was never actually written), eyes have continued to return to Novak, who was the first person to reveal Plame's status in the CIA.

Novak has thus far refused to talk about it, has not named his source, and has generally left people to wondering what he knew, when he know it, and who gave him his information. Most importantly it's left a lot of people wondering why, if one journalist is already in jail over the Valerie Plame issue, Novak has skated free of any legal troubles.

Ed Henry had planned to ask Novak about the CIA leak case on "Inside Politics" and had informed Novak of that fact. Could Novak finally be cracking from the pressure of protecting his Karl Rove? Has the time finally come for Robert Novak to pay a price for revealing the identity of an undercover CIA operative? And does, perhaps, know it full well?

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