The Novak Double Standard

The Bush Justice Department's partisan appointee is still investigating which Bush administration officials leaked the name of a CIA operative to columnist Bob Novak. In the course of the investigation, Time's Matt Cooper and the New York Times Judith Miller have been subpoenaed and threatened with jail time.

Amazingly, though, Bob Novak has not been threatened with the same punishment, even though was the only journalist to publish the name, and has refused to disclose who ilegally leaked the information. Instead, he's been left alone, allowed to continue printing columns filled with partisan attacks on the CIA, and bloviate on television about how other high-profile reporters should disclose sources.