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Slate: "But the WHLs [White House Leakers] were sadly mistaken if they thought a nepotism accusation would discredit Wilson. Their most obvious oversight was that they work for George W. Bush, who didn't exactly pull himself up by his bootstraps."

Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "What does it take to get Bush fired up and ready to take names and kick backsides? Blowing the cover of a CIA agent apparently doesn't meet that test."

Boston Globe: "Whether it was intended as payback, or as a warning to others who might question administration policies in public, or had some other motive, the naming of an undercover agent is a reprehensible, dangerous, and disloyal crime."

Good article here on the debate over Novak's decision. Journalists tending to side with Novak.