[don'tbedenied]

I don't think it means anything other than the press expects indictments (we already knew that)and they want to protect their new hero from attack. The reverse of the Starr treatment.

[dirtboy]

I don't think it means anything other than the press expects indictments

I think two things are going on here:

1 - in the absense of leaks, the press has to write nonsense like this to keep the story going, and

2 - make all kinds of unsubstantiated allegations based on anonymous sources that damage Bush and Rove, just in case no indictments against Rove are handed down.