(On FITZ.) Novak MTP interview held two very interesting pieces of info...

[originalpckelly]

"MR. NOVAK: Mr. Fitzgerald asked my lawyer not, not to divulge our, our contacts. He advised that that was good, good advice until his investigation was completed. When he announced that Karl Rove would not be indicted, my attorney went to Mr. Fitzgerald and asked him if it was—if that request now no longer held true, and he said that his investigation had been concluded as far as I was concerned."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13839698/page/5/


Not just that but look at post #7, Fitz knew the identity of Novak's source as soon as the investigation started.

What (or who) the HELL is Fitzgerald still investigating? Who's left? I mean think about it, the slimy weasel got off scot free, and Libby is being tried for lying. Who else could be prosecuted?

[annabanana]

1. the big 'go f*ck yourself' himself. . . . . .

wouldn't it be nice?

[originalpckelly]

2. Remember the newspaper?

Me thinks the big weenie will be roasted soon.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Yup--that was my first thought.

[Bjornsdotter]

4. Oh please, oh please

Let it be so!

Cheers

[originalpckelly]

8. We can hope can't we?

:-)

[gordianot]

9. As much as I despise the "big go".

Even though he is the prime mover for most of the destruction of the Constitution, I really really wanted them to get the political operative Rove.

[originalpckelly]

5. I mean he would have said the investigation was OVER...

makes you really wonder.

[Igel]

6. Don't read more into it than is appropriate.

There are two options: (1) Yes, Mr. Rove, my investigation is over. (2) Yes, Mr. Rove, my investigation is over as far as you're concerned. What would the third be? (3) Yes, Mr. Rove, my investigation is over as far as you're concerned, but continues as far as others is concerned.

(1) says more than is likely to be true, and more than Fitzgerald needs to say--therefore inappropriate; Libby, if nobody else, is still on the hook. (2) is accurate, and doesn't need to imply that anybody else is still under investigation. (3), which is what you want to think would have been said, would be completely inappropriate.

(2) *could* mean somebody else is on the hook, other than Libby. But it can't provide so much as a hint that this is the case, because the other possibilities are ruled out.

[originalpckelly]

7. The best part: Earlier Novakula said Fitz knew his sources...

even the one that remains confidential within a few weeks of the beginning of the investigation.

"Yes, because they already knew. On my first interview, my first interview with the FBI, I had refused to give up the names of my sources. The second interview with Mr. Fitzgerald, I was in a dilemma because he had, as you know, waivers that I could give up the identity from just about everybody in the government. That didn’t cut any ice with me, I didn’t think I could give it up. And then I was told that he had only the waivers from the sources that I had talked to. Only two waivers. When he actually arrived, he had the third waiver from the CIA spokesman. In other words, Tim, he knew who my sources were, and so it wasn’t a matter of me giving them up...
...MR. RUSSERT: How do you believe Patrick Fitzgerald knew the identity of your sources?

MR. NOVAK: I don’t know. I thought he did it—he knew the identity almost from the very beginning of the, of the case. In other words, he has known for two and a half, for three—for two and a half years who my sources were and decided that no law was broken. And he did not bring any kind of indictment against my primary source, whose identity has still not been publicly made known.

MR. RUSSERT: But he knows it?

MR. NOVAK: Of course he knows it. He gave it—he—that’s—he made it clear to me he knew it my first interview with him."

I think Fitz. is either himmin' and hawin' around because he doesn't have anything, or he does have something, but it is on someone big.

[Sugarcoated]

10. Wish I wasn't up late enough to see that MTP is re-airing yet again

but since I am here's a kick:kick:

[Catherine Vincent]

11. It depends on who was the "I".

Did he mean "as far as I (Novak) was concerned?