confirm that? i would have had to say, no, i can't confirm that. but that was my participation. i thought it was interesting that when everybody thought i leaked valerie plame's name to bob novak people camped out in front of my doorstep. some your cnn colleagues were frequent visitors in front of my house. but whether in august of 2006, america found out that it was richard armitage who had leaked the name to robert novak, what we got was an exculpatory editorial from the "washington post" and the media didn't camp out on his doorstep. there were no drumbeats for sending him off to prison. this thing went away. but as long as they thought it was me, there was an interest. i very early on get every signal from the fbi, then the prosecutors, that i was not in jeopardy because of anything that i might have said to robert novak about valerie plame. they were interested in side issues which i describe in the book which were really extraordinary. when they finally laid them out on the table, and my attorney told them what was behind that,