Plame Gossip - V. Novak sends Rove to jail

Looks like the V. Novak testimony won't keep Rove out of the clink.

Months before Karl Rove corrected his statements in the Valerie Plame investigation, his lawyer was told that the presidential aide might have disclosed Plame's CIA status to Time reporter Matt Cooper, the magazine reported Sunday.

Rove says he had forgotten the conversation with Cooper. But in the first half of 2004, as President Bush's re-election campaign was heating up, Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, got the word about a possible Rove-Cooper conversation from Time reporter Viveca Novak. (I like the reminder on the election in this article. - mike) .....

It wasn't until October 2004 — sometime between five months and nine months after Novak's conversation with Luskin — that Rove disclosed his conversation with Cooper to the prosecutor.

And that last sentence is why Rove will go down. This V. Novak story was a desperate hail mary by Luskin. It confused us all, but as the detail comes out, it becomes more and more clear that it's not going to work. (more later)

(Later) Here's the Time story V. Novak wrote about her meeting with Luskin. I still don't see how it helps Rove.