Novak Says Bush Knows Plame Leaker

In remarks recorded Tuesday at a John Locke Foundation luncheon -- comments the conservative columnist is said to have believed to be off the record but that were clearly taped -- Novak urged the president to reveal the leaker's identity. Here's the Locke Foundation's Jon Ham blogging on it at the organization's Locker Room:

His source for the Valerie Plame information is, he is confident, the same as The Washington Post's Bob Woodward's. He would be surprised if President Bush didn't know who "he" was (Ed.: So we know it wasn't Mary Matalin, Karen Hughes or Laura).

UPDATE: On hearing an audio of this portion of Novak's talk I learned that the above is in error. He said, rather, that Woodward speculates that his source and Novak's source are the same and that he is confident that President Bush knows who the source is.

Damn bloggers. More from Newsday here.