part of the issue we potentially face with Fitzgerald - came from Rove talking to Matt Cooper, and Libby talking to Miller. Did you see the excerpts of that release letter from Libby to Miller? It read like he had a crush on her.
If you worked in the white house and Mandy Grunwald's husband called you, would you talk to him?
I'm not sure where this Fitzgerald thing is going, but I don't put alot of faith in him. If Rove and Libby are indicted, so much for "cooperating fully" as being the good faith approach to this investigation - when a prosecutor spins a perjury trap for you, "cooperating fully" is simply handing him your a*s for indictment. We'll know by the end of next week.
It's hard to deal with Fitz on all of this. He's been great about not leaking. But he's taken this nonsense far too seriously. This should have ended a month ago.
The thing is, I think Rove/Libby got this info from a couple of different "sources" and it was the biggest open secret in Washington. When Wilson went to Niger, everyone wanted to know who the hell he was. They probably thought nothing of spreading the info because they didn't barge into Human Resources in Langley to figure it out. It was just a rumor.
I don't know that there was a perjury trap. If I had to guess, Fitz will write a report saying what awful and terrible people Rove/Libby are and hinting that Judy Miller should say more but she's not a part of the probe.
The truth is, we know nothing of this probe and all we are hearing is wishful thinking on the part of these guys.