HOw much longer on Fitzgerald's investigation?

[ncteechur]

[NMDemDist2]

1. the Grand Jury should be winding it up next month I heard on AAR

today. Mid to late October

[mmonk]

4. My birthday is in October,

the 22nd. This would be a great gift!:party:

[lancdem]

2. With Miller testifying tomorrow

that's the end. We'll have indictments in a matter of weeks, I'm guessing.

[leeroysphitz]

5. May all your guesses be right... nt

[whistle]

3. For what.....another 45 days have passed and nothing yet....

<snip>

What Now, Karl?
Rove and Ashcroft face new allegations in the Valerie Plame affair

by Murray Waas
August 13th, 2005 2:39 PM

Justice Department officials made the crucial decision in late 2003 to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the leak of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame in large part because investigators had begun to specifically question the veracity of accounts provided to them by White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, according to senior law enforcement officials.
Several of the federal investigators were also deeply concerned that then attorney general John Ashcroft was personally briefed regarding the details of at least one FBI interview with Rove, despite Ashcroft's own longstanding personal and political ties to Rove, the Voice has also learned. The same sources said Ashcroft was also told that investigators firmly believed that Rove had withheld important information from them during that FBI interview.

Those concerns by senior career law enforcement officials regarding the propriety of such briefings continuing, as Rove became more central to the investigation, also was instrumental in the naming of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

<more>
<link> http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0533,waasweb1,66861,2.html

[ncteechur]

6. Does Miller hold the final puzzle piece?

I agree with another poster that you don't ask a question unless you already know the answer. Does Miller just serve to confirm what is already known? Will she lie to protect * and the administration?

[shaggy1974]

7. This is all very strange.

Why does Libby release her now? Why let her sit there for that period of time? Do they think that nothing is going to come of this? I just have a bad feeling that this is all going to be for naught.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi shaggy1974!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[longship]

8. My opinion is that GJ knows all.

Fitz is undoubtedly careful, deliberate, and complete in his investigation. If I could get into his mind, I might hold off until I had all the pieces I could get before issuing any findings to the public.

The administration's inevitable response will be to Swiftboat Fitzgerald. I'm sure he is acutely aware of this. If I were him, I would want to have *all* my ducks in line. I think they know the whole picture, but only need Miller to give more gravitas to the findings.

[thebaghwan]

9. The Grand Jury expires October 28th.

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