Rove's lawyer deposed in Plame investigation

There's a lot of buzz about this on the blogs, but not knowing much about legal proceedings, I can't say how significant it is. The folks at Salon say: How odd is that? Very. It's not often that a judge will let one lawyer depose the lawyer for an opposing (or potentially opposing) party, and it's probably even less often that a lawyer would volunteer to undergo such a deposition without a court order requiring it.

From the CNN story that started the buzz:

Several weeks ago, Time reported that Fitzgerald wanted to talk to Novak about conversations she had with Robert Luskin.

Luskin is the lawyer for White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and Novak spoke to him as part of the magazine's coverage on the leaking of the name of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Fitzgerald deposed Luskin last Friday. Time and Luskin refused to answer CNN's questions about Luskin's conversation with Novak.

Rove's attorney has said Fitzgerald is still investigating his client.