Novak To Testify In Plame Investigation
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Media, The Plame GameNo, not Robert Novak. This is another Time reporter, Viveca Novak. Apparently she had some conversations with Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, and Fitzgerald wants to know what was said.
Novak, part of a team tracking the CIA case for Time, has written or contributed to articles in which Luskin characterized the nature of what was said between Rove and Matthew Cooper, the first Time reporter who testified in the case.Cooper appeared before the grand jury in July after Time surrendered his notes and e-mail detailing a conversation with Rove. Cooper agreed to talk and avoid jail after disclosing that his source � now confirmed to be Rove � released him from his confidentiality agreement.
Will Viveca Novak be forever know as “the other Novak?”
Still more from Time and it seems as if, from Time’s wording, that Rove may have little to worry about as far as an actual indictment goes:
Fitzgerald is still trying to tie up the loose ends on Karl Rove’s involvement in the case. Rove spoke to Matthew Cooper of TIME about Mrs. Wilson in July 2003, and this past July, Rove gave Cooper a specific waiver of confidentiality to testify about what was discussed. Fitzgerald has now asked a second reporter in TIME’s Washington bureau, Viveca Novak, to testify under oath about conversations she had with Robert Luskin, Rove’s attorney, starting in May 2004, while she was covering the Plame inquiry for TIME. Novak, who is not related to columnist Robert Novak, who originally published Plame’s name, is cooperating with the investigation.
Very interesting. Note the “tie up loose ends” comment. Seems like they know something we don’t?
Wait and see…
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