Here's the deal:
1. Novak found out about "Wilson's wife" setting him up for the trip to Niger from a yet-unnamed source, who Novak repeats is NOT in the White House and NOT a political gunslinger. He goes on to say this source did not intend to "leak" anything.
2. Novak called Karl Rove for confirmation that "Wilson's wife" set up his trip and he did not go at Dick Cheney's request as he had told everyone.
3. Novak says Rove answered "oh, you know that too" while Rove told the investigators and the grand jury he said "oh, I heard that too."
4. Novak then looked up Joe Wilson in "Who's Who in America" and found his wife's name right there in print.
5. Novak called Harlow at CIA to confirm Valerie Plame worked there. Harlow confirmed.
6. Novak had his story and ran it.
Novak goes on to say that Fitzgerald already knew about all three of his sources before he was questioned by investigators or the grand jury. In other words, Fitz knew this whole story was a crock very early on, but carried on for two years anyway and spent millions of our dollars for nothing. And the whole "White House War on Wilson" and nefarious plot by Karl Rove to "retaliate" against Wilson by "outing" his wife was a complete fiction peddled by the Kerry campaign and bought by Matt Cooper, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the rest of the MSM.
I am interpreting your post as saying Prosecutor Fitzgerald perpetrated a fraud upon the court, and the judge winked at, suborned really, perjury.
This whole Plame thing was such a crock of crap, it's turned into just another divorce court circus.
An honest judge is supposed to halt a proceeding when it goes off the rails, which explains why this has been in the news this many years.
Four Scourges of the World:
1. Liberal Media
2. Democrats
3. Islamofacists
4. Communists