Fox's Smith announced Plame lawsuit by uncritically airing Novak's dubious denial of a “concerted” Bush administration effort against Wilson
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In announcing that Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame had filed a lawsuit against Dick Cheney, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, and Karl Rove, Fox News host Shepard Smith uncritically stated that Robert Novak “was on this network yesterday saying there was no concerted campaign to out Plame as a way of punishing her husband.” But Smith omitted special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's findings that a “concerted action” by “multiple people in the White House” had been intended to “discredit, punish or seek revenge against” Wilson.