Here's the Buzz, Cheney, too

Huffington Post, so they've got contacts, but they have been wrong before, too.

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are working on stories that point to Vice President Dick Cheney as the target of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name.

My birthday falls on the day the grand jury is scheduled to close. Is this asking for too much?

There has been much speculation in the left side of the blogosphere at the administration figures which have been absent from official functions at which they would normally be present.

Rove was notably absent from the Mier's nomination announcement, as well as several other functions.

Cheney has been almost non-existent since his pre-Katrina vacation and surgery. Some have speculated health, others a falling out with Bush. But this Huffington allegation could be it, too.

Here's some indication that it might be true.

Just rumormongering at this point, but juicy, eh?

Update: After thinking about this a little bit while running around commenting on some other blogs, I've decided that if true, the implications of this are pretty staggering. So here's one of those comments that I think sizes it up pretty well.

I would guess that if Cheney is indicted, all the people who this Neocon cadre have pissed off (not to mention Rove) will sense political weakness and start leaking like crazy. The whole WMD lie would probably be revisited with new information, not to mention the torture scandal and god knows what else.

The Bush whitehouse would start pushing people over the side in an effort to regain some credibility, certainly reshaping the political makeup and political abilities of the remaining policymaking group.

And let's not even talk about the fallout on the midterm elections.

Let's quote one of my favorite wise men, " Get ready, that's a fact, Get ready, you Mother, for the big payback." - James Brown.

Update 2: Source, Raw story, so several grains of salt, but since I'm already rumormongering.

Lawyers familiar with the investigation believe that at least part of the outcome likely hangs on the inner workings of what has been dubbed the White House Iraq Group. Formed in August 2002, the group, which included Messrs. Rove and Libby, worked on setting strategy for selling the war in Iraq to the public in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion. The group likely would have played a significant role in responding to Mr. Wilson's claims.

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