Breaking: Hume, Novak mislead on facts of Libby conviction
Loading the player leg...  Shortly after the March 6
announcement that a federal jury had found former vice
presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby guilty on
charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and lying to federal
investigators, both Fox News Washington managing editor Brit
Hume and syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak peddled various
falsehoods regarding the CIA leak case. On Fox News' Live Desk,
Hume claimed that special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's
investigation "was exploded right from the beginning" when
Fitzgerald learned that then-deputy Secretary of State Richard
Armitage was the original source for Novak's July 16, 2003,
column revealing Valerie Plame's CIA employment. Hume repeated
his previous claim that Armitage's disclosure was "the only leak
that made any difference" and went on to say that Fitzgerald
nonetheless "found it necessary to press on and ... he's now
convicted somebody of a crime that did not occur un