In response to the question immediately below, a lot of commenters are suggesting the quite logical explanation that Novak’s not in trouble because he cooperated and spilled the beans. But if that’s true, why didn’t that allow Fitzgerald to wrap the whole thing up right then and there? Would he really have allowed Novak off the hook for anything else beside telling him who his sources were, what they said, etc?
Perhaps Novak tried to pass off on <$Ad$>him the convenient lie that the persons in question didn’t know or didn’t tell him that Plame was covert. But some careful research we did almost two years ago on this point should pretty clearly I think that Novak has been fibbing through his teeth when he says this.
So, like I said, if Novak did cooperate and if that didn’t provide enough for Fitzgerald to make some indictments or wrap the whole thing up, that in itself points to some more complex situation than most are considering.
Like I said, we’re discussing the question here.
