Novak Cooperated With Fitzgerald

Washington Post–

A critical early success for Fitzgerald was winning the cooperation of Robert D. Novak, the Chicago Sun-Times columnist who named Plame in a July 2003 story and attributed key information to “two senior administration officials.” Legal sources said Novak avoided a fight and quietly helped the special counsel’s inquiry, although neither the columnist nor his attorney have said so publicly.

However we already assumed this. This is much more important:

By October 2004, Fitzgerald announced he was “for all practical purposes” finished. The final pieces he wanted were the testimony of Miller and Cooper, who had each discussed Plame with either Rove or Libby. Using a provision that allowed the submission of evidence in secret, Fitzgerald persuaded U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan, a Reagan appointee, to order the reporters to testify or face jail for contempt.

If Fitzgerald gets convictions of Libby and/or Rove, and Miller’s testimony is crucial to it, then we will then know that she made George W. Bush the President for a second term. There’s no way that Bush would have survived such convictions and won that incredibly close election.