In a 1958 photo, then-Associated Press staff reporter Robert Novak works the telephone in the Senate press gallery. Novak, the journalist who was a central figure in the Valerie Plame leak case, died today at the age of 78. (Henry Griffin / Associated Press)
Robert Novak addresses the National Conservative Student Conference of the Young America’s Foundation in August 2005. Through the years, the late journalist worked for the Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal, was a syndicated columnist and served as a commentator for CNN. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
Columnist Robert Novak speaks during a Washington taping of NBC’s “Meet the Press” in July 2007. Before he died, Novak said he knew that his role in the Valerie Plame scandal was “going to be in the lead of my obituary, and I cant help it. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
