CIA Leak Case Watch: Fitzgerald Meets With Judge

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, right, leaves the federal courthouse Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005 in Washington after meeting for three hours with the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer’s identity. The jury adjourned for the day without announcing any action. The two-year criminal probe has ensnared President Bush’s top political adviser Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis Libby.

The ASSociated Press has Prosecutor, Judge in CIA Leak Probe Meet.

The prosecutor in the CIA leak probe had a confidential lunchtime meeting with a federal judge Wednesday after a grand jury listened to three hours of testimony in the case that has ensnared top White House aides.

The grand jury’s term expires on Friday, and the panel adjourned for the day without announcing any charges or other action. The administrative assistant to Thomas Hogan, the chief judge of U.S. District Court in the nation’s capital, confirmed Hogan’s meeting with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. The assistant, Sheldon Snook, declined to comment on what was discussed.

No witnesses were seen going into the grand jury area, only Fitzgerald and his deputies.

The prosecutor is known to be putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal investigation that has involved
President Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, and Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby.

Lawyers representing White House officials expect Fitzgerald to decide this week whether to charge Libby and Rove. The lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation is at a highly sensitive stage, regard it as unlikely that Fitzgerald would seek to extend the life of the grand jury.

There was no word on whether the grand jury planned to meet Thursday.

Flap cannot believe that anyone will be indicted for a crime in this case. What crime?

And if Fitzgerald is to press for perjury or obstruction charges he will be laughed out of court.

It is time to end this WITCH HUNT.

There is NO THERE there.