Time reporter, Viveca Novak to testify about conversations with Rove atty

NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/politics/28leak.html?ex=1290834000&en=70e50230aacfc3a6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

2nd Time Reporter Asked to Testify in Leak Case

By DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: November 28, 2005

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 - A second reporter for Time magazine has been asked to testify under oath in the C.I.A. leak case, about conversations she had in 2004 with a lawyer for Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, the magazine reported on Sunday.

The reporter, Viveca Novak, who has written about the leak investigation, has been asked to testify by the special counsel in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, about her conversations with Robert D. Luskin, a lawyer for Mr. Rove, the magazine said.

The request for Ms. Novak's testimony is the first tangible sign in weeks that Mr. Fitzgerald has not completed his inquiry into Mr. Rove's actions and may still be considering charges against him. Mr. Rove has long been under scrutiny in the case but has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

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Time magazine did not make clear what information the prosecutor hoped to obtain from Ms. Novak, whose name has not previously surfaced in the case. She has contributed to articles in which Mr. Luskin was quoted.

Here's the link to the times archive on Plamegate...
http://www.time.com/time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_cia_leak,00.shtml?internalid=AFC

V.Novak was an author on 4 stories. There is nothing obvious in them that betrays anything that an attorney might have shared.

One story implies that the media's sources identity(identities?) is in the hands of the reporters.

Only one has a direect quote from the attorney saying Rove is cooperating and is not a target.

Cooperation with the FBI is mentioned in several of them.