Plame gossip - Fitzgerald back at grand jury

No real news here except that the investigation is still going on.

Six weeks after White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was indicted in the CIA leak case, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was back at work Wednesday before another grand jury in the drawn-out federal probe.

Fitzgerald, accompanied by several deputies seen carrying files as they walked into the grand jury area of the courthouse, made no comment to reporters about the nature of his visit.

Probably reading the V. Novak and related testimonies into the Grand Jury record. But, I don't think you do that if you're not going towards indictment.

Also, last night I was struck by how similar the Fitzgerald appearances are to the monster in a monster movie. Take Jaws for example. It starts out as unsubstantiated reports, then maybe you get a shot of a fin or a flipper or an eye, a little testimony or a leak, a little creepy music and a shot of the worried soon to be victim who begins paddling slowly, then frantically to get away. Then you get the harder music and everybody sees the shadowy shape beneath the water suddenly speeding towards the hapless victim. He makes a mistake, or maybe the boat is bumped, and the victim falls in the water. Only then do you get the full creature shot of Jaws as he tears the subject apart at the indictment.

Then you get the calm recovering music as Jaws disappears from view, but everybody knows that the shark is still out there, still hunting, and there are still more people on the beach.

Da-dum. Da-dum. Rove is hearing the music right about now, and he's about to start paddling frantically. The only question left is will he push someone elase over the side so he can get away.