Conservative columnist and former CNN “Crossfire” co-host Robert Novak has died after a yearlong battle with cancer, his family announced Tuesday. He was 78.
Novak retired in August 2008 after being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.
He was a longtime columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a regular commentator for CNN for 25 years, beginning when the network launched in 1980.
For most of that time, he was a co-host of the political debate program “Crossfire.”
In 2003, he found himself at the center of the scandal over the exposure of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, when he published a column revealing her status days after her husband challenged a key Bush administration justification for the invasion of Iraq.
The scandal ultimately led to the conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators probing the leak.
Novak cooperated with a special prosecutor and was not charged in the case.
(Source: CNN)
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Raised Jewish, Novak converted to Roman Catholicism in 1998,[12] after meeting Peter Vaghi, whom he had known before Vaghi switched from politics to the priesthood.
Bob was a class act, well respected, and tenacious in search of the truth. A true Rodef Emes.
bob was a shtick tinuf!
Wasnt it Novak that fabricated an interview with an israeli general about the attack on the USS liberty?
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He was a soineh yisroel!!
His role model??? Jimmy Carter
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You don’t know what you are talking about. Not only did he convert to Catholicism, he was always anti-Israel.