Plame Gossip - V. Novak get big money lawyer

Viveca Novak may just be overly cautious, but that's a whole lotta legal protection if the story we've gotten in the press is true.

I'd be really curious to know who is paying her fees. No evidence that she's not, but that's pretty big money, and if someone else is bankrolling her lawyer, that would be big news.

UPDATE: USAToday is reporting that Fitzgerald spent "more than an hour," which I would guess is less than an hour and a half, meeting with and deposing Viveca Novak and her new lawyer. That' doesn't seem to me to be very long, so the deposition could be just a quick "checking the facts" of the indictment.

It's beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas.

UPDATE 2: It's all starting to come together now.

Fitzgerald deposed Luskin last Friday. Time and Luskin refused to answer CNN's questions about Luskin's conversation with Novak.

Rove's attorney has said Fitzgerald is still investigating his client.

So, Fitzgerald deposes Luskin last Friday, reads part or all of the deposition into the record for three hours yesterday, then deposes V. Fox for less than an hour today just to check Luskin's story. Whose story do you think he believed?

I included that last line because it can be read two ways, that Rove is still under investigation, or that Luskin was saying that he's not under investigation for his V. Fox conduct/testimony. No basis, but as some of his conduct has been suspect, I'm just throwing that out there.

Firedoglake has a pretty good, "it's coming soon" post. If you want to believe that it's coming, take a look.