From Reuters:
The federal prosecutor investigating who leaked the identity of a CIA operative is expected to signal within days whether he intends to bring indictments in the case, legal sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
As a first step, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was expected to notify officials by letter if they have become targets, said the lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Fitzgerald could announce plea agreements, bring indictments, or conclude that no crime was committed. By the end of this month he is expected to wrap up his nearly two-year-old investigation into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
Not surprisingly, this “news” has the Bush haters absolutely giddy. Both Tom Maguire and the Corner note this item from the Lefty gossip site Radar Online, which moons:
The D.C. rumor mill is thrumming with whispers that 22 indictments are about to be handed down on the outed-CIA agent Valerie Plame case. The last time the wires buzzed this loud  that Tom DeLay would be indicted and would step down from his leadership post in the House  the scuttlebutters got it right.
Can it be a coincidence that the White House appears to be distancing President Bush from embattled aide Karl Rove? “He’s been missing in action at more than one major presidential event,†a member of the White House press corps tells us.
Well, I suppose that could be the case. Of course, by that same logic, we should probably expect Fitzgerald will be handing out indictments to John Kerry and John Edwards, too…
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update: More discussion at TalkLeft; see also, Huffingtonpost’s Judith Miller Blog Roundup.
Or, he could buy us all an ice cream cone and tell us about the time he saw an armadillo dance.
Do you think Joe “The Stud” Wilson will be indicted for hubris? What? That’s not a crime? Hmmm… Maybe we could find a prosecutor – perhaps in Texas – that would indict him anyway.
According to Radar Online, Fitzgerald will be issuing one million bazillion indictments.
They’re also calling the espionage arrest of someone who worked in the White House, had been assigned to the staffs of Al Gore and Dick Cheney, had a top secret clearance, and doubtless access to highly sensitive material ”a very convenient distraction.”
One of Jeralyn’s commenters (for whom she’s not at all responsible), had this to say:
Words alone can’t describe the dung heap that poster (Squeaky) must have for a brain.
I predict another indictment for Sandy “Secret Pants” Berger.
Maybe this time the prosecution will have diagrams.
I have it on good authority that one of the 22 indictments is against the Tooth Fairy for breaking and entering. I blew that one off until I also learned that Fitzgerald had been in contact with Ronnie Earle.
I am reluctant to mock this particular bit of illogic for fear of seeing it back in my face, but here we go:
The last time the wires buzzed this loud  that Tom DeLay would be indicted and would step down from his leadership post in the House  the scuttlebutters got it right.
Does it make a difference that, with DeLay, the prosecutor was Ronnie Earle, a leaky Texas Democrat?
With Plame, are 22 lawyes representing White House staffers all leaking to the press?
Or has Fitzgerald suddenly gotten all chatty?
I’m betting on 21 indictments for Karl Rove and just for good measure, 1 for Mike Brown.
Holy cow, the kos post on Rove has over 450 posts! The Emocrats are going nuts, lol.
They gonna idict the people who put out “Who’s Who?”
*Holy cow, the kos post on Rove has over 450 posts! The Emocrats are going nuts, lol.*
They smell chum in the water. Not realizing, of course, they forgot yesterday was bath day.
Hippies =x
The White House press corps would be the last to know that Rove has been in and out of hospital with excruciating kidney stones.
I received my regular brain ray feed from Rove this morning, so I don’t think he’s missing in action.
This one at Huffington is the funniest shit I have ever read, I think these must of gotten posted by people on hold to Art Bell.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/judith-miller-the-grosse_b_8388.html
Regarding that espionage case:
“I don’t know of a case where the vetting broke down before and resulted in a spy being in the White House,” said Richard Clarke, a former White House advisor who is now an ABC News consultant.
Richard Clarke?? There’s an unbiased source for you.
tw: appear, as in “This appears to be a bad week for the president.”
TV (Harry)
Prediction
There will be no indictments for either Rove & Libby.
This&That
The President just mentioned Islamic-Jihad and Islamo-fascism in his speech while explaining clearly who is our enemy and what this GWOT is about.
The foreign controlled US State Department must be in a meltdown right now.
For me, this puts Bush right back up there with the other Republican Revolutionary American leader.
The Marine spy? Richard Clarke says the vetting broke down?
Uh, Richard, he worked for AL GORE before he worked for Cheney. Who’s “vetting broke down?”
Score another one for the Clinton legacy.
Sorry to go off-topic but Bush’s speech indicates he must have read everything written by Victor Davis Hanson.
Finally, Bush is speaking truth to Islamic Fascism out in the open.
Uhhhh…. Alger Hiss, anyone?
I believe Hiss was in the State Department, not the White House. I could be wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss
And here you go…
DC
I guess by most of the logic of this “non-scandal”, then this man should go free..
Pentagon Analyst Pleads Guilty in Spy Case
Strange, I’ve been looking all over for it on Malkin, LGF, PowerLine….
Why should he go free?
Malkin = pundit.
She’s a dang good reporter on the stuff she DOES cover, but if you use her as a main source of bloggery, you kid yerself.
Ummm…Malkin has been covering the Franklin/AIPAC investigation from the gitgo…
TW: distance..myself from stereotyping MM
She has? Haven’t been reading her lately. She’s had a few posts that really burn my toast, but I’ll say that she’s a better read than the NYTimes any day.