Novak's sources.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Robert Novak - Brief Article

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...