That's a very likely explanation for the low attendance. It's becoming more clear there is not going to be a high-profile Bush administration official frog-marched off to jail and no impeachment of Bush over Plame.
~smirk~
The message was sent via NYTimes article a month back saying, hey, maybe this investigation is not such a good idea after all.
Then deflecting to whether or not Novak testified. As far as I can tell that doesn't matter since the officials who told him already testified, according to one source.
I can't figure out the Judith Miller angle, but the fact she didn't write anything is doesn't make a leak of a CIA agent's name to her right.
Novak gave them a warning that the first one at least was not "a partisan gunslinger."