Is anyone starting to doubt we'll see indictments?

[hiaasenrocks]

I know the little sliver of doubt I'm feeling is probably just pessimism and disappointment since there will be no announcement today, but I'm worried that some sort of deal is being cut that will allow the "targets" to weasel out of legal trouble.

Let the hammer drop. PLEASE!

[Verve]

1. If they squeal, it'll just mean bigger trouble for Cheney! n/t

[hiaasenrocks]

8. I hope you're right! n/t

[zanne]

2. Are we sure there will be no indictments today?

Link, please?

[hiaasenrocks]

7. It sounds like that's the case.

I saw David Schuster (sp?) on NBC, in front of the courthouse, saying his sources in Fitz's office report no announcement today.

I know the indictments may already be in the hopper and the announcement is just a formality, but I wanna know! :)

[xultar]

3. Weasel is what weasels do. I haven't been expecting indictments.

[Cactus44]

4. I think the delay is to allow time for the targets to squeal on

the bigger fish in exchange for a lighter sentence.

That's a good thing.

[highplainsdem]

11. I agree.

[hiaasenrocks]

13. Okay, that's what I'm going with now.

I guess after waiting this long, through the entire investigation, waiting another day isn't so bad.

And I would much rather see Cheney on the hot seat, than Libby. Hmmm.

[GalleryGod]

5. No. Not Fitz.

:patriot:

[mmonk]

6. No

[Midlodemocrat]

9. We don't KNOW that there will be no indictments today.

We don't KNOW anything.

I trust Fitzgerald to do the right thing. I am not worried. I am hopefully optimistic.

[babylonsister]

10. No! Keep your chin up! When the news dumps,

it will be so sweeeeet!

[ClassWarrior]

12. The way I see it, the RepubliCONs are already facing consequences, and...

...whatever else happens is Fitzmas gravy.

B-)

NGU.

[maine_raptor]

14. Rove and Libby are goin' down

faster than Ann Coulter on a statue of Ronald McDonald.

[converted_democrat]

27. I just sprayed coffee all over my keyboard!! Thanks!

:spray:


:rofl:

[Oreo]

15. Stephanie Miller just said Fitz is leasing more office space in DC

Can anybody confirm? This could only mean he's expanding the investigation

[DemReadingDU]

17. here's a link

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001033.html

[ananda]

16. I'm puzzled.

I don't understand the role of Fitz or the process and why it takes so long.

The press is just so rightwing and every day that BushInc operates just does more damage.

Sue

[smoogatz]

18. Fitz's history shows that he's smart, relentless and good at his job.

Plea bargains in exchange for testimony at this stage of a conspiracy investigation are par for the course. Flip the small fry, go for the big fish--that's how prosecutors work.

[hiaasenrocks]

24. Very true. Good points. n/t

[DanCa]

19. I was always cautiously optimistic - (nt)

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

20. No

We will see indictments.

I also predicted Miers would be dropped to throw smoke in the air and more smoke when they name her replacement next monday.

[dogday]

21. This news with Harriet Miers makes me think

that there will be indictments and that when they are handed down, shrub will appoint another Justice to take some of the heat of off these indictments. Harriet is stepping down right on cue....

[smoogatz]

26. There's no reason to think the SCOTUS would be involved, unless Bush

himself was in jeopardy as a result of Plamegate. And if he was, wouldn't he want Miers, his personal ass-licker, on the bench to pprotect him? That makes more sense to me. Miers was a major blunder. Bushco is coming apart at the seams.

[dogday]

29. I mean that they would be involved only

in the sense of what would be newsworthy? The indictments are going to be major news, if one wanted to take the air out of it's tires, it would be a good time for shrub to appoint his next wacko for SCOTUS.

[smoogatz]

30. dupe

[smoogatz]

31. I think it's a mistake to think of the Fitzgerald probe as primarily

a media event--though that's the unfortunate tendency around here. Fitz seems to like working under the radar as much as possible; fine with me, as long as somebody does the frog march when it's all said and done.

[dogday]

32. It already is a media event

Like it or not, it is already the talk of everyone although Harriet Miers resignation is stealing the show just as they planned. I think this administration will do what it can to take the heat off of any indictments...

[smoogatz]

34. It is, but that's just the mayo on the BLT.

The substance of Fitz's work is far more important than the media coverage, IMO--which will at first not get it, then beat it into the ground. I'm in it for the frog march.

[H2O Man]

22. You are silly! n/t

[hiaasenrocks]

23. I've been called worse :) n/t

[lonestarnot]

25. Hell no!

[converted_democrat]

28. Nope, and this is why.......

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/359712p-306469c.html


Buzz about a Karl plea
as probers close in



BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK, KENNETH R. BAZINET and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - Jittery Bush aides gnawed their nails yesterday as a special prosecutor zeroed in on White House political guru Karl Rove's role in blowing a CIA agent's cover.
In the closing hours of the grand jury probe, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald paid a visit yesterday to Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, prompting speculation that a plea bargain could be in the works for the deputy White House chief of staff.

It was the latest of several one-on-one meetings between Fitzgerald and Luskin, the Daily News has learned.

Investigators also turned up at the White House for yet another round of questions for Rove's subordinates

[Bridget Burke]

33. No.

[Crankie Avalon]

35. No, I don't doubt we'll see indictments...

...what I'm really wondering about is how long until we see pardons. :(

[Pacifist Patriot]

36. I've been fearing it from the beginning. I have become

astoundingly afraid to get my hopes up after five years of the Bush Administration shitting on the Constitution and the U.S. legal code.