Jonah: Note that Kinsley misstates an important point about the Plame affair. He writes, “As you probably know, Novak wrote last July that ‘two senior administration officials’ had outed a woman named Valerie Plame to him as a CIA agent.” Novak wrote no such thing. Kinsley also assumes that his inferences about the motives of whoever spoke to Novak about Plame are indisputably correct, and help to justify the exposure of the sources.