Plame Gossip - Novak opens a can

Holy Crap. I gotta wonder what the White House did to Novak to prompt this. Maybe he's just pissed about losing his career by writing a White House mandated hit piece.

Newspaper columnist Robert Novak is still not naming his source in the Valerie Plame affair, but he says he is pretty sure the name is no mystery to President Bush.

"I'm confident the president knows who the source is," Novak told a luncheon audience at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh on Tuesday. "I'd be amazed if he doesn't."

"So I say, 'Don't bug me. Don't bug Bob Woodward. Bug the president as to whether he should reveal who the source is.' "

Somehow, I don't think the President will be answering questions again anytime soon. And pity the poor McClellan. If I see this in a Press Briefing, I'll throw it up. It should be particularly rancorous after McClellan got caught claiming that Rove had no role in the leak.

UPDATE: National Review is reporting big rumors that Rove is gonna be indicted soon. And, Mr. York, using, "as far as anyone knows" to downplay the severity of this investigation may salve the base who read NRO, but it works two ways. "As far as anyone knows," Fitzgerald is investigating Rove for a string of axe-murders. See, It's certainly wrong, but a clever way to spin your opinion.

UPDATE: David Shuster is apparently reporting that there was neither Fitzgerald nor grand jury at the Prettyman Federal courthouse today. This is only annoying because he was the first one yesterday to tell us there would be a meeting. Was he wrong yesterday? Or did Fitzgerald cancel the meeting so he could discuss things with the lawyer of "Official A?" No idea. Just gossiping.