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CIA Leak Investigation: Who Goes Down First

Max has announced the "MAXSPEAK DEAD POOL"--on who takes the fall as a result of the alleged CIA leak of the identity of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame.

Taking the fall" means resignation, arrest, or indictment, whichever two come first.

Update: Via Calpundit, we learn Drudge has a response by Novak up on his site. It's unsourced as of now:

'Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this. In July I was interviewing a senior administration official on Ambassador Wilson's report when he told me the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing. As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in Washington I do not reveal confidential sources. When I called the CIA in July to confirm Mrs. Wilson's involvement in the mission for her husband -- he is a former Clinton administration official -- they asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operator, and not in charge of undercover operatives'...

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