Plame gossip - Fitzgerald still investigating.

Kinda weird sourcing for this, but I thought it was interesting enough to merit notice.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Filipino American Susan Ralston, chief of-staff to presidential adviser Karl Rove, is one of nearly two dozen White House officials – including President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney – believed to have knowledge about the outing of Central Intelligence Agency operative agent Valerie Plame.

Ralston, Rove’s right-hand man, is scheduled to appear again before Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who is investigating the circumstances surrounding the leak of Plame’s identity in the media.....

Ralston appears to be a person of critical interest in the investigation, just like her boss Rove.....

At 37, Ralston, a graduate of management, had worked as assistant to Jack Abramoff, a powerfully connected lobbyist, at the Preston Gates and Ellis and later at Greenberg Taurig law and lobbying firms. Story had it that Abramoff, indicted on alleged corruption charges involving, among others, former Republican majority leader Tom DeLay, had offered Ralston to Rove when the latter was looking for an efficient and trusted assistant.

I think the key here is that Fitzgerald is not simply "tying up loose ends" as several White House defenders have suggested.

UPDATE: GOOD source says this story is incorrect. Their wording was that the idea of Ralston going before the grand jury is incorrect. The bad sourcing was an issue, sorry. I've tried pretty hard to put the Plame stuff up with proper skepticism, but as this did not seem particularly inflammatory, I didn't think it was BS. But, let me point out that both could still be true. Technically, this article says she was scheduled to appear before Fitzgerald, not a grand jury. But if I were you, I would discount the whole thing.

Sorry, again. Mike