Plame Gossip

And I emphasize gossip. Making the rounds tonight from the Nelson report:

[T]he line between gossip and intelligence is too-often thin, as we've seen the past few years. With that caution in mind, Washington buzz today focused on reports of a three-hour grand jury meeting (presentation?) by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, with no witnesses called. Our legal advisors confess no inside information, but say this sort of an event usually precedes an indictment being handed down.

Not too sure about this, see my Fitzgerald/Jaws theory below, but I would think that this would be very quick with Viveca Novak's deposition scheduled tomorrow(?) unless Fitzgerald only asks her a few questions with very definitive answers he expects her to give. (When did you talk to Luskin? Feb 2004.)

If that's her tesimony, it offers Rove very little cover, mainly because the meeting occurred before Rove first came before the grand jury and lied, and nine months before he finally recanted in his fourth grand jury appearance. If that's the case, a quick indictment is a possibility. (next week? before Christmas?)

The bottom line is the shark is circling Rove and everybody knows it. If there isn't some life raft we haven't heard about, I think it's only a matter of time at this point.