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●「CIA女工作員の実名漏洩スキャンダル」はコラムニストのロバート・ノヴァクが
　７月中旬に発表した（工作員の身元がずばりと判るように書いた）コラムがきっかけ
　だったわけですが、９月末になって突如、大騒動に発展した印象があります。

　なんだかまるで、ウォーターゲイト事件のような様相を呈しつつあるみたいです。

　この騒動がどういう方向に発展していくのか。そして小ブッシュとネオコン陰謀団が
　どのような反撃をしていくのか、その過程で米国の政治組織や治安警察体制がどの
　ように変質していくのか……。　ナチス政権がヒットラー暗殺計画の発覚後に猛烈な
　“画一化”と粛清を進めたえわけですが、そうした前例も念頭に置きながらこの騒動
　を眺めていく必要がありそうです。

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（読売新聞）[10月3日0時1分更新]
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20031002-00000202-yom-int

ＣＩＡ要員実名漏えい問題、焦点のコラムニストが反論

　【ワシントン＝伊藤俊行】米中央情報局（ＣＩＡ）の秘密工作員の名前をホワイトハウス高官が漏えいしたとの疑惑で、秘密工作員とされる女性の身元を最初にコラムに書いたロバート・ノバク氏が、１日付のワシントン・ポスト紙に「情報漏えいではない」とのコラムを寄せ、反論した。

　ノバク氏は今年７月、同紙などに、米政府高官の情報として、ジョゼフ・ウィルソン元ガボン大使がイラクのウラン購入疑惑を調査するためニジェールに派遣されたのは、ＣＩＡの「秘密工作員」である元大使の妻の示唆によるものだったとするコラムを発表した経緯があり、ノバク氏の情報源が誰だったのか、注目が集まっている。

　反論のコラムでノバク氏は、＜１＞元大使が派遣された経緯を取材する中で、ＣＩＡで働く妻の関与がわかったのであり、計画的な情報漏えいは受けていない＜２＞ＣＩＡは元大使の妻の身元を明かすことが彼女や関係者に危害になるとは警告してこなかった＜３＞妻がＣＩＡで働いていることは秘密と言うほどのものではない――と指摘し、「コラムで彼女を『工作員』と表現したことが悔やまれる。私は４０年以上、三流政治家に対して『工作員』の表現を使ってきた」と弁明した。

　そのうえで、「司法省が捜査要請を受けたのは私のコラム発表の直後だ。それが先週になって、突然、報道され、反ブッシュ（大統領）の騒乱に火をつけた」と、情報漏えい疑惑の浮上した背景に疑問を投げかけている。

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●上記の読売報道のネタ元となった『ワシントン・ポスト』への
　ロバート・ノヴァク氏の釈明コラムはつぎの通り――
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031001.shtml

The CIA leak

Robert Novak
October 1, 2003

WASHINGTON -- I had thought I never again would write about retired diplomat Joseph Wilson's CIA-employee wife, but feel constrained to do so now that repercussions of my July 14 column have reached the front pages of major newspapers and led off network news broadcasts. My role and the role of the Bush White House have been distorted and need explanation.

The leak now under Justice Department investigation is described by former Ambassador Wilson and critics of President Bush's Iraq policy as a reprehensible effort to silence them. To protect my own integrity and credibility, I would like to stress three points. First, I did not receive a planned leak. Second, the CIA never warned me that the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency would endanger her or anybody else. Third, it was not much of a secret.

The current Justice investigation stems from a routine, mandated probe of all CIA leaks, but follows weeks of agitation. Wilson, after telling me in July that he would say nothing about his wife, has made investigation of the leak his life's work -- aided by the relentless Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. These efforts cannot be separated from the massive political assault on President Bush.

This story began July 6 when Wilson went public and identified himself as the retired diplomat who had reported negatively to the CIA in 2002 on alleged Iraq efforts to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger. I was curious why a high-ranking official in President Bill Clinton's National Security Council (NSC) was given this assignment. Wilson had become a vocal opponent of President Bush's policies in Iraq after contributing to Al Gore in the last election cycle and John Kerry in this one.

During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue.

At the CIA, the official designated to talk to me denied that Wilson's wife had inspired his selection but said she was delegated to request his help. He asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause "difficulties" if she travels abroad. He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name. I used it in the sixth paragraph of my column because it looked like the missing explanation of an otherwise incredible choice by the CIA for its mission.

How big a secret was it? It was well known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Republican activist Clifford May wrote Monday, in National Review Online, that he had been told of her identity by a non-government source before my column appeared and that it was common knowledge. Her name, Valerie Plame, was no secret either, appearing in Wilson's "Who's Who in America" entry.

A big question is her duties at Langley. I regret that I referred to her in my column as an "operative," a word I have lavished on hack politicians for more than 40 years. While the CIA refuses to publicly define her status, the official contact says she is "covered" -- working under the guise of another agency. However, an unofficial source at the Agency says she has been an analyst, not in covert operations.

The Justice Department investigation was not requested by CIA Director George Tenet. Any leak of classified information is routinely passed by the Agency to Justice, averaging one a week. This investigative request was made in July shortly after the column was published. Reported only last weekend, the request ignited anti-Bush furor.

c2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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Read Novak's biography
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BIOS/cbnovak.html

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●CIA女工作員実名漏洩スキャンダルのそもそものきっかけを作った
　ロバート・ノヴァク氏の７月に発表したコラム記事――
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The July 14th Robert Novak Column that Exposed a CIA Operative
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030714.shtml

Mission to Niger

Robert Novak
July 14, 2003
( Editor's Note: Robert Novak wrote a column on Oct. 1, 2003 in response to the story that began to unfold three months after this column originally ran. )

WASHINGTON -- The CIA's decision to send retired diplomat Joseph C. Wilson to Africa in February 2002 to investigate possible Iraqi purchases of uranium was made routinely at a low level without Director George Tenet's knowledge. Remarkably, this produced a political firestorm that has not yet subsided.

Wilson's report that an Iraqi purchase of uranium yellowcake from Niger was highly unlikely was regarded by the CIA as less than definitive, and it is doubtful Tenet ever saw it. Certainly, President Bush did not, prior to his 2003 State of the Union address, when he attributed reports of attempted uranium purchases to the British government. That the British relied on forged documents made Wilson's mission, nearly a year earlier, the basis of furious Democratic accusations of burying intelligence though the report was forgotten by the time the president spoke.

Reluctance at the White House to admit a mistake has led Democrats ever closer to saying the president lied the country into war. Even after a belated admission of error last Monday, finger-pointing between Bush administration agencies continued. Messages between Washington and the presidential entourage traveling in Africa hashed over the mission to Niger.

Wilson's mission was created after an early 2002 report by the Italian intelligence service about attempted uranium purchases from Niger, derived from forged documents prepared by what the CIA calls a "con man." This misinformation, peddled by Italian journalists, spread through the U.S. government. The White House, State Department and Pentagon, and not just Vice President Dick Cheney, asked the CIA to look into it.

That's where Joe Wilson came in. His first public notice had come in 1991 after 15 years as a Foreign Service officer when, as U.S. charge in Baghdad, he risked his life to shelter in the embassy some 800 Americans from Saddam Hussein's wrath. My partner Rowland Evans reported from the Iraqi capital in our column that Wilson showed "the stuff of heroism." President George H.W. Bush the next year named him ambassador to Gabon, and President Bill Clinton put him in charge of African affairs at the National Security Council until his retirement in 1998.

Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.

After eight days in the Niger capital of Niamey (where he once served), Wilson made an oral report in Langley that an Iraqi uranium purchase was "highly unlikely," though he also mentioned in passing that a 1988 Iraqi delegation tried to establish commercial contacts. CIA officials did not regard Wilson's intelligence as definitive, being based primarily on what the Niger officials told him and probably would have claimed under any circumstances. The CIA report of Wilson's briefing remains classified.

All this was forgotten until reporter Walter Pincus revealed in the Washington Post June 12 that an unnamed retired diplomat had given the CIA a negative report. Not until Wilson went public on July 6, however, did his finding ignite the firestorm.

During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Wilson had taken a measured public position -- viewing weapons of mass destruction as a danger but considering military action as a last resort. He has seemed much more critical of the administration since revealing his role in Niger. In the Washington Post July 6, he talked about the Bush team "misrepresenting the facts," asking: "What else are they lying about?"

After the White House admitted error, Wilson declined all television and radio interviews. "The story was never me," he told me, "it was always the statement in (Bush's) speech." The story, actually, is whether the administration deliberately ignored Wilson's advice, and that requires scrutinizing the CIA summary of what their envoy reported. The Agency never before has declassified that kind of information, but the White House would like it to do just that now -- in its and in the public's interest.

c2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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