Fitzgerald's investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame by the Whitehouse is coming to an end. His Grand Jury ends Friday the 28th. At that point he has to shit or get off the pot. It looks like he is going to shit. This is way bigger than Watergate. I haven't posted much about it lately since so much of it is rumor. Next week will be interesting. There are some very worried people in the Whitehouse. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of bastards.

Fitzgerald's Historic Opportunity

If special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald delivers indictments of a few functionaries of the vice president’s office or the White House, we are likely to have on our hands a constitutional crisis. The evidence of widespread wrongdoing and conspiracy is before every American with a cheap laptop and a cable television subscription. And we do not have the same powers of subpoena granted to Fitzgerald.

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  thanks to Antiwar.com

Cover-Up Issue Is Seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry

As he weighs whether to bring criminal charges in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, is focusing on whether Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, sought to conceal their actions and mislead prosecutors, lawyers involved in the case said Thursday.

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WH in disarray, the way we like it
by Steve Gilliard

With special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald driving his CIA leak investigation toward an apparent conclusion, the White House now confronts the looming prospect that no one in the building is eager to address: a Bush presidency without Karl Rove. In a capital consumed by scandal speculation, most White House senior officials are no more privy than outsiders to the prosecutor's intentions. But the surreal silence in the Roosevelt Room each morning belies the nervous discussions racing elsewhere around the West Wing.

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Will the Grinch Steal Fitzmas?

John Dean -- who knows something about these things -- has some cautionary words for all the little lefties eagerly counting presents (indictments) under the tree: Don't be entirely surprised if "Santa" leaves a lump of coal in your stocking.

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