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-Secondly, the fact of Armitage being the leaker of Plame's identity and covert status to Novak has nothing to do with Libby leaking Plame's identity and overt status to other reporters before the publication of Novak's column on July 14th, 2003. Specifically, in the
original indictment, prosecutors contended that Libby had potentially violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by disclosing Plame's covert status to New York Times reporter Judy Miller on at least three occassions.
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QFT, and this is something that is pretty much never discussed in most coverage of this case. Fitzgerald knew that Armitage leaked to Novak, but I don't see how that should close the book on this investigation. In any case Libby's convictions were also based on when he lied to investigators in October and November 2003, before Fitzgerald was appointed! So Fitzgerald, the person in charge of this investigation is just supposed to ignore this?