All Intensive Purposes

A lot of people have wondered what Vivica Novak's testimony could possibly do to inform the Plame investigation -- i.e., what could she possibly say about her conversation(s) with Karl Rove's attorney, Donald Luskin, that would be relevant? Is it possible that Rove's story now is that he forget earlier conversations, and that he has waived the attorney-client privilege to permit Luskin to testify that Rove had no recollection when they talked? If so, perhaps Luskin thought that Novak's testimony would corroborate his own.

The notion of such a waiver sounds pretty loopy, but maybe Rove is pulling out all the stops, on the thought that he would have to step down from his current position running the country if he were indicted.