Viveca Novak

Her piece on her Luskin conversations is now up at TIME. General consensus of the blogosphere: the news is exculpatory for Rove. According to V. Novak, Luskin was surprised when she told him Matthew Cooper was a Rove source (Rove had presumably testified otherwise at this point). Taking her version at face value, it seems either Rove genuinely forgot about the Cooper conversation or he lied to his lawyer. In any event, like the Woodward revelation, it's another disturbing glimpse of a Washington journalist cozying up to a source and hiding subsequent involvement in the story from the bosses.