Instead of using the headline "Rove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. Officer", the Times should have used "Rove not source of leak".
Don't be too hard on the Times, it had to kill them to write this story. Since Novak's other source was "not a partisan gun slinger" I'm assuming it was the same thing: Novak asked the official. So the story is who was the original leak...looks like the media, which may explain Fitzgerald's frustration with them.