Karl Rove will not be indicted? I wonder who he squealed on.

Top White House aide Karl Rove has been told by prosecutors he won't be charged with any crimes in the investigation into the leak of a CIA officer's identity, his lawyer said Tuesday, lifting a heavy burden from one of President Bush's most trusted advisers.

So Fitzgerald is throwing Rove back into the water. Now why would a great fisherman like Fitzgerald throw a huge fish like Rove back? Is it because there is a bigger fish on his line?


Fitzgerald has been investigating whether senior administration officials intentionally leaked the identity of CIA undercover operative Valerie Plame in retribution because her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, sharply criticized the administration's pursuit of war in Iraq.

He had Rove dead to rights. He caught him in a lie! So what other "senior officials"might be next to be investigated?

Rove testified five times before a grand jury, most recently in April. He has admitted he spoke with columnist Robert Novak and Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper in the days before they published Plame's name in July 2003.

Rove, however, did not originally tell prosecutors about his conversation with Cooper, only revealing it after his lawyer discovered a White House e-mail that referred to it.

Now, based on the above statement it seems clear that Fitzgerald had Rove by the shorthairs. Rove was clearly panicked by all of the accounts coming out of the White House. So why would he be scared if he had done nothing wrong?

The only answer must be that he gave up either the Vice President or President Bush.

Okay that is not the ONLY answer but it is the one that I choose to believe until proven wrong.

This time I do not hope I am wrong.