Plame Gossip

Fitzgerald is back in DC and meeting with the Grand Jury. The previous grand jury meeting Wednesday was rescheduled so that Fitzgerald could wrap up a couple elements in the Conrad Black case, our friend Jason reports.

Fitzgerald sure seems anxious to get back to that Grand Jury.

And, Plame related, CNN issued a statement praising Bob Novak's 25 years of service, then stating that the network would not be needing Novak's further services after Dec. 31. You figure he probably heard about this before today, so maybe that's why he blew up in that speech.

Update: I just want to throw this out into the mix. I have no backing for this, I just want this speculation on the record as it were. Is it possible that Fitzgerald got the Rove-Hadley email, or an idication of it, from another source, Hadley or someone else in the chain, or from somebody's else's submitted documents? If that's so, Fitzgerald has been setting a perjury trap for Rove for a long time. No backing, just a curious question.

Update 2: Murray Waas has a piece out in the National Journal which claims that the Rove Novak call was all about the Frances Townsend appointment, and Plame just happened to come up from Novak's side. This sounds like big spin to me. Somebody on Rove's side wants this out there. "See, Karl didn't do anything, he didn't even mean to talk about Plame."

But, how does that explain away your perjury, Mr. Rove? That's a crime you know.