Time Reporter Testifies in Leak Case
Rove Lawyer Was Deposed Last Week by Special Prosecutor
A special prosecutor questioned Time magazine reporter Viveca Novak under oath yesterday about a conversation she had with the attorney for presidential adviser Karl Rove that has become part of the CIA leak investigation, according to a top editor at the magazine.
In another twist, the lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, was deposed on the same issue last Friday, a source close to the case said.
Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's questions in both sessions focused on the same subject: the conversation that Luskin and Novak, longtime friends, had over drinks sometime in the first half of 2004 about Rove's potential exposure in the probe.
Sources familiar with their conversations say Novak's and Luskin's accounts to Fitzgerald appear to conflict on
when they spoke.