Second Time Reporter To Testify in Plamegate
Sunday November 27, 2005
AP reports that Viveca Novak, a reporter in Time magazine's Washington bureau, will testify about her conversations with Robert Luskin, attorney for Karl Rove, before Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Novak (no relation to Robert Novak) is the second Time reporter to cooperate in the Plamegate investigation; Matthew Cooper risked jail time earlier this year. In October, a grand jury indicted White House staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
Most recently, Novak wrote about Bob Woodward's fall from grace:
Most recently, Novak wrote about Bob Woodward's fall from grace:
[R]ather than bringing clarity to the murky case of Who Leaked What to Whom about CIA operative Valerie Plame, the revelations about Woodward's role only added more complexity to both the case and the deepening debate over the rules star journalists get to play by.
Novak is an author with the Penguin Group, which published her co-authored 2005 book Inside the Wire - A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo. She is an award-winning reporter: the Harvard University Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting; the Clarion Award for investigative reporting; and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award. Like many of today's journalists, she "makes" as well as "reports" on the news; she is a frequent guest on network and cable TV news shows. She holds a B.A. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, an M.S. from Columbia University School of Journalism, and an M.S.L. from Yale Law School.
