isikoff and luskin, sitting in a tree

* isikoff is reporting that Fitz's trip "to the office of James Sharp, President George W. Bush's own lawyer in the case" on friday morning was " to tell him the president's closest aide would not be charged."

* digby: "Holy Shit. Can someone tell me why Fitzgerald would go to President Bush's personal lawyer on Friday to tell him that Bush's "closest aide wouldn't be charged?" Is it in any possible sense ethical for the prosecutor to be telling the president's lawyer information that isn't available to the public about members of the president's staff in the middle of an investigation?"

* jane reckons that isikoff is whoring himself and she's upset. quite upset.

* isikoff finishes his article with this strange spin:

" But the lawyer (*cough* luskin *cough*) said Novak—and several other figures in the probe—may initially have been able to testify undetected because witnesses were allowed to take an underground elevator up to the grand jury, making it less likely they would be spotted by journalists. In the summer of 2004, presiding Judge Thomas Hogan ordered all witnesses to go through the front door. As a result, Rove—who made four grand-jury appearances—didn't get noticed testifying until October 2004."

does that make any sense?