BOB IN PARADISE….Reporters like Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller, who have declined to reveal their sources in the Valerie Plame case, find themselves threatened with jail. But Bob Novak, the man at the very center of the Plame case, apparently faces no such problem.

Why? And more intriguingly, why is it that no one ? neither conservative nor liberal ? ever asks him about it? Amy Sullivan goes inside the Novak bubble to look for answers in “Bob in Paradise,” this month’s cover story in the Washington Monthly. Check it out.

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