Fitzgerald's appointment violates federal law

* jeralyn on libby's new filing: "The most interesting statement in the filing is the one that states Fitzgerald only recently disclosed that two months after his appointment, around February, 2004, he learned the identity of Robert Novak's source for his July, 2003 column outing Valerie Plame." (link)

* AP:

"The defense attorneys say assignment of unsupervised and undirected power to Fitzgerald requires that he be relieved of his duties in the investigation and that all actions he has taken be voided.
Fitzgerald's appointment violates federal law, the defense attorneys say, because his investigation was not supervised by the attorney general. They say only Congress can approve such an arrangement."