Rober Novak: accessory or Shrub stooge?

Okay I'm going to stick my neck out here, but why the f**k isn't Robert Novak in custody right now as an accessory to the felony of exposing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent? Or at least to be obstructing justice or one of those other convenient "conspiracy to" charges the government always pulls to lock away people who seem to have done something but the evidence doesn't quite match up to the standards required to convict on an "actual" charge.

I know that there is a thing called freedom of the press in the constitution, however I don't believe that gives them the right to commit a crime. And there is no doubt about it, exposing Plame as a CIA agent was a felony plain and simple. And I believe refusing to reveal where he got that information from would be a crime plain and simple since he's not taking the fifth to avoid incriminating himself, he's already incriminated. Or maybe I'm just apply some quaint British standards of justice and there really isn't a thing called obstructing justice in this country. Oh well I'm sure its for the better.

And the reason no Bush aides are guilty? Or so says the Whitehouse... That easy, Bush got Novak to do it himself personally, and Novak will never have the balls to incriminate Bush while he is still in power. You can bet your life as soon as Bush is out of the Whitehouse Novak will be fessing up, or writing a book about it, or maybe collecting a handy payoff somehow for keeping his mouth shut.