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Both MSNBC and the AP agree that Karl Rove has appeared today to discuss why he failed early on in the investigation to tell prosecutors about a conversation he had with Time reporter Matt Cooper.

Apparently another Time reporter, Viveca Novak, was aware of the conversation between the two men and mentioned it to Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin. But it wasn’t for several months later that Rove himself fessed up to prosecutors.

So the question would be: why the lag time?

Novak told prosecutors that she’d told Luskin about the Cooper conversation, and since then they’ve been anxious to hear from Rove why they got the information second-hand — and several months late.

This, then, would be the “loose end” Rove supporters are talking about.

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