[mosquitobite]

Also from Wilson's book... WHO is the friend who just "happened" to bump into Novak on the street before Novak's article was even written. I think that "friend" is most likely the leaker Fitz is looking for... (jmho - a set up of sorts, or they stupidly tried using Plame's position to BOLSTER Wilson's claims)

[Fedora]

Yes, the identity of Wilson and Novak's mutual friend is a vital missing piece of information. I'm surprised the press hasn't stampeded to identify the individual [insert sound of crickets chirping], who is surely known to other Washington reporters who know Wilson and Novak, and who has been questioned by Fitzgerald ("Prosecutors have questioned former CIA director George J. Tenet and deputy director John E. McLaughlin, former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, State Department officials, and even a stranger who approached columnist Robert D. Novak on the street."--and here the source is described as a "stranger", which is not the impression I got from Wilson's book). Nor for that matter has Novak identified the individual, which is also curious because the individual is evidently not one of the two sources he was trying to protect, so citing the confidentiality of his sources would not explain his silence on the issue.