Bob Novak in the house

The features editor at the paper I work at was approached by a student last week who said she has a family member “in the service” and wanted to write a column about the experience. She only mentioned it was her cousin when she initially pitched the story idea to the editor.

The column ran Tuesday (we took it offline, don’t even bother trying to find it). Today the writer called quite upset and said she got an e-mail from from said cousin who was quite pissed at her for writing the column about him. Why? The cousin is in the CIA and she broke his cover with his photo, name and everything.

I’m just glad I had nothing to do with the whole thing.
(fixed the entry as I had misunderstood what had happened)