Plame Gossip - Thursday

As always, come back and check the updates at the bottom of this entry as things change throughout the day.

We'll start with the WaPo telling us, nothing will be announced until tomorrow. And the deadline is certainly Friday.

The prosecutor in the CIA leak investigation presented a summary of his case to a federal grand jury yesterday and is expected to announce a final decision on charges in the two-year-long probe tomorrow, according to people familiar with the case. .....

Fitzgerald's legal team did not present the results of a grand jury vote to the court yesterday, which he is required to do within days of such a vote. ....

Should he need more time to finish the investigation, Fitzgerald could seek to empanel a new group of grand jurors to consider the case. But sources familiar with the prosecutor's work said he has indicated he is eager to avoid that route. The term of the current grand jury has been extended once and cannot be lengthened again, according to federal rules. .....

People close to Rove said he fears a perjury charge because he did not initially tell the grand jury that he had spoken with Time reporter Matthew Cooper about Plame before her name was publicly disclosed.(Yup, that would be perjury. - Mike) .....

One legal source said the two(Fitzgerald and Hogan) have met regularly to discuss practical matters about the case, which now include intense media interest and how to avoid improper leaks about secret grand jury matters.

Steve Clemons says that Fitzgerald has signed a lease this week for larger offices across the street from his current office. This is not the move of a prosecutor intending to make no indictments and go back to Chicago on Friday. Obviously, he's looking at trials ahead. As this develops it will be interesting to see just how much bigger the offices are as it will tell us whether these indictments will be the end, or whether the investigation will broaden further.

And yes, the analysis has reached the level that office space is discussed. I'm sorry, but it's all I've got to work with.

UPDATE: Steve Clemons has retracted the rumor above about office space. He gives a rather lengthy explanation that his sources were wrong. I figured that was a pretty easy thing to check out by someone at his level, but apparently he didn't. Sorry to have put it here.