Robert Novak has been in the Karl Rove mouthpiece business for over 25 years: BROOKE GLADSTONE: Another media management technique employed by Rove that you document could be called "strategic leakage." The issue of leaks dates back to 1980 -- the Reagan campaign -- you say that Rove was fired for leaking.

JOE MEALEY: Yes. That was a, a leak to Robert Novak, actually, [LAUGHTER] involving Rob Mosbacker. Rob Mosbacker was an operative in the Bush I campaign with Rove, and Rove leaked to Robert Novak that Mosbacker had done a terrible job. It came out in Novak's column, and Rove was fired.

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