Catching up

So much has happened over the past couple of days that I'm having a hard time keeping up. Following the news that Fitzgerald's investigation was focusing on Cheney we had speculation yesterday that the reptilian Ms. Rice might be elevated to VP if the Borg were to resign over TraitorGate. There were widespread reports that someone inside the White House had flipped. Who the heck is John Hannah anyway? Now the NY Times is reporting that Fitzgerald has no plans to release a final report of his investigation, and that he is not expected to take any action this week.

By signaling that he had no plans to issue the grand jury's findings in such detail, Mr. Fitzgerald appeared to narrow his options either to indictments or closing his investigation with no public disclosure of his findings, a choice that would set off a political firestorm... ...Some of the lawyers in the case say Mr. Fitzgerald seems to be wrestling with decisions about how to proceed, leaning toward indictments but continuing to weigh thousands of pages of documents and testimony he has compiled during the nearly two-year inquiry.

In recent days, Mr. Fitzgerald has repeatedly told lawyers in the case that he has not made up his mind about criminal charges.

Now the good part:

Given the political ramifications attached to Mr. Fitzgerald's decisions, officials at the White House have begun discussing what would happen if Mr. Rove was indicted. Among the names being discussed to take some of Mr. Rove's responsibilities should he have to step aside, an outside adviser to the White House said, are Dan Bartlett, currently Mr. Bush's counselor; Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Robert M. Kimmitt, the deputy Treasury secretary.

But I must say that there is an odor of Republican spin all over this article. It's almost like you can read the wishful thinking on the part of the reporters between the lines.

Without a report, it seems likely that questions about the case may remain unanswered and that a complete account of the administration's activities may never be known, including the details of testimony by the scores of administration officials who were interviewed in the inquiry.

So I guess we just have to keep waiting. At least one thing has been made clear in this whole story, though. The New York Times can longer be labelled as being part of "The Liberal Media".