Apparently, the National Review didn't get the talking points...

[brooklynite]

VALERIE WILSON'S NEIGHBORS
One of the key questions about the CIA leak investigation has been: Just how covert was Valerie Wilson? At various points in the probe, there have been reports that a number of people -- friends, neighbors -- knew that Wilson worked for the CIA. And one of the mini-scoops of this week's coverage was the report that on Monday evening, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigators went to Mrs. Wilson's neighborhood and asked her neighbors whether they knew that she worked for the CIA.

The assumption among many investigation-watchers was that Fitzgerald's agents must have been re-interviewing the neighbors. Surely, they had gone over that ground before, because if it were true that Wilson's neighbors knew about her employment, then it could not have been the kind of secret that would be at the heart of such a major investigation.

But I met two of those neighbors, David Tillotson and Marc Lefkowitz, this evening, and they both said that the visit they got from investigators on Monday was the first time they had ever been contacted by anyone from the Fitzgerald investigation. Both men seemed surprised that it had taken Fitzgerald so long to come calling; they reasoned, like everyone else, that if they had known Wilson's secret, then others probably would have, too. But Fitzgerald had never asked, until Monday.

The bottom line, however, is that both men said they did not know that Mrs. Wilson worked for the CIA. They said they were friends with the Wilsons, but did not have a clue about her true employment. So they had no information to rock the Fitzgerald investigation -- but they wondered why the prosecutor didn't get to them sooner.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/
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[Spinzonner]

1. Possibly because they Fitzgerald wanted to keep the investigation

close to the vest and not tip the potential targets to strategy and subjects by widening the number of people who were contacted.