About Novak saying Bush knew who leaked.

[shraby]

I had a thought. If Novak is telling the press that Bush knows, he certainly told Fitzgerald that same thing. Maybe Fitz has a bit more than the pundits realize.
If Bush told Fitz he had no idea who leaked, then he has a charge of making false statements. How would he handle this?

[BuyingThyme]

1. He'll give him a pass.

[savemefromdumbya]

2. lying to a federal prosecutor?

I think from the very beginning they all knew that Rove did it, just a case of nailing him. Besides if Bush knew then this is a serious charge

[Geoff R. Casavant]

3. I've realized today Fitz is a lot like Columbo

I don't know how many Columbo fans we have on DU, but it was truly a groundbreaking mystery show. For starters, it was 90 minutes long, and the first 30 minutes you got to see the crime itself so you always knew who the killer was. Then Columbo would come along and begin sharing bits of the investigation with the killer, who would invariably offer some kind of explanation, and Columbo always acted like he wasn't completely on the ball (and the trademark "just one more question, sir" that would force the killer to change a story ever so slightly).

Finally at the end Columbo had the killer dead to rights and started explaining how he figured it out, and you realized that he had everything figured out within 5 minutes of showing up, and all the rest was an act to draw out the killer and box him in and make the case airtight.

I think Fitz probably had all he needed to indict someone last spring, and everything that's been going on since then has just been letting everyone hang themselves.

BTW, true Columbo afficionados usually refer to episodes (at least the classic ones) by the name of the celebrity killer. For those in the know, my favorite episode is the one with Donald Pleasence, but the most elegant deduction I recall was one where Columbo measured the total volume of a bunch of books, determined that all the books could never have fit in the boxes labeled "books," and blew the killer's alibi out of the water.