Fitzgerald's arm gets longer

This is an interesting report from Murray Waas. He claims that Fitzgerald believes Rove was Bob Novak's source for Plame's identity and that the two of them may have devised a coverup story to hide that fact from the prosecutors.

On September 29, 2003, three days after it became known that the CIA had asked the Justice Department to investigate who leaked the name of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, columnist Robert Novak telephoned White House senior adviser Karl Rove to assure Rove that he would protect him from being harmed by the investigation, according to people with firsthand knowledge of the federal grand jury testimony of both men.

In the early days of the CIA leak probe, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was briefed on a crucial conversation between Robert Novak and Karl Rove. Suspicious that Rove and Novak might have devised a cover story during that conversation to protect Rove, federal investigators briefed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft on the matter in the early stages of the investigation in fall 2003, according to officials with direct knowledge of those briefings.

If true, one more hack may bite the dust -- an indictment of Novak seems possibile. Hmmmm.