WTF Is It Now?!?

Fitznews
The continuing saga

"We have an obligation to ensure that our national security is protected." - Abuto Ghraibzales, this weekend. Unless the traitors work in the White House.

The classified status of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame will be a key element in any trial of Scooter Libby, according to special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald has said that at trial he plans to show that Libby knew Plame's employment at the CIA was classified and that he lied to the grand jury when he said he had learned from Tim Russert that Plame, the wife of former ambassador Joseph Wilson, worked for the agency.

So... will Libby also be charged with violating national security? Will Dick Cheney be called as a prosecution witness against his former chief of staff? Will incontinent traitor Bob Novak's name be on the list of reporters Gonzales will prosecute for publishing classified information? Will Hell freeze over?

More updates: David Shuster on Hardball last night said that Karl Rove's legal team expects Fitzgerald to announce a decision "at any time." The grand jury is scheduled to meet again this Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Truthout is not backing down from their Rove indictment story. Not only are they "flat-out calling" Rove's spokesman and lawyer liars, they say Rove "may" be cooperating and turning state's evidence against the vice president.

We know that we have now three independent sources confirming that attorneys for Karl Rove were handed an indictment either late in the night of May 12 or early in the morning of May 13. We know that each source was in a position to know what they were talking about....

And we know that White House spokesman Tony Snow now refuses to discuss Karl Rove - at all.

The plot, like what's left of Cheney's arteries, thickens:

The Wayne Madsen Report and the Chris Matthews Show have both floated the theory that Fitzgerald had secured indictments against Rove, but Gonzales --via Gonzales' deputy and Fitzgerald's direct superior, Paul McNulty -- came in at the last second and used his power as Fitzgerald's superior to kill the indictments.

And because I never get tired of this picture, FU, you smug bastard: