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Time Reporter Interviewed in CIA Case By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON - Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than an hour Thursday morning at a law firm representing Viveca Novak, a Time magazine reporter whose testimony was being sought in the CIA leak case.


Fitzgerald and an associate emerged from the office of attorney Hank Schuelke at 11:30 a.m. EDT, declined to answer questions and rode away in a taxi cab. A short time later, a court stenographer left the building.

An hour later, Schuelke escorted Novak from the building and helped her flag a taxi. He declined comment when asked if she had provided sworn testimony in Fitzgerald's investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA agent's identity.

The special counsel's meeting with Novak and Schuelke comes a day after Fitzgerald spent three hours meeting with grand jurors about the leak inquiry, which so far has yielded the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby.

Fitzgerald had been seeking testimony from Novak about her conversations with Robert Luskin, an attorney for deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove, who is still under investigation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051208/ap_on_go_ot/cia_leak