Listening to Meet the Press, heard Russert mention that now Time's Viveca Novak has been asked to testify by Fitzgerald. She wrote the big Time piece on Woodward's conversation with his source ... Is she being asked to testify about what Woodward told her? As I remember, what was key about what Woodward told her, was that he (Woodward) had pushed his source to come forward to Fitzgerald:

... When Fitzgerald said Libby was the first known Administration official to reveal Plame's name to a reporter, Woodward called his source, he says, and noted the timing of their conversation. "My source then said he or she had no alternative but to go to the prosecutor," he says. "I said, 'If you do, am I released [from our confidentiality agreement]?'" According to Woodward, the source said yes, but only to talk to Fitzgerald about the conversation, not to reveal the source's name publicly. Woodward has refused to say publicly who the source is but notes that "the process of my reporting was the catalyst for the source to go to the prosecutor and for me to be called by Fitzgerald." Woodward also told TIME that he had gone to his source twice before -- once in 2004 and the second time earlier this year -- and asked to be released from his pledge, but that the source had declined. ...

Has Woodward's source suggested to Fitzgerald otherwise?

Update: Guess not. Viveca Novak is being asked to tell Fitzgerald about conversations she had with Rove's attorney Robert Luskin starting in May 2004, the AP reports. More from Tom Maguire and a handy NYT graphic.

Posted by Laura at November 27, 2005 01:21 PM