Reply #14: I agree with you, if this was just gossip between Scooter, Karl [View All]

[MADem]

and reporters, he would have enough already. But he's got a couple of foot soldiers and techical types in his web as well. And they've flipped, apparently.

When Karl cancels appearances, Andy Card cancels an appearance, and they all huddle at Camp David, I'd say we are looking at Nixonesque fortress mentality...

And then, there's this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/22/AR2005102201113.html

Letter Shows Authority to Expand CIA Leak Probe Was Given in '04

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 23, 2005; A05



Weeks after he took over the investigation 22 months ago into the unauthorized disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald got authority from the Justice Department to expand his inquiry to include any criminal attempts to interfere with his probe, according to a letter posted Friday on Fitzgerald's new Web site.

Fitzgerald is nearing a decision on whether he will prosecute anyone when the federal grand jury term ends Friday. The letter specified that he could investigate and prosecute "perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence and intimidation of witnesses."

According to a lawyer familiar with the case, the current speculation about such charges eventually arising appeared to have occurred to Fitzgerald in the first months of his inquiry.

In a letter dated Feb. 6, 2004, then-Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey said that he was clarifying, "at your request," the added authority to investigate and prosecute "crimes committed with intent to interfere with your investigation." Fitzgerald's appointment as special counsel on Dec. 30, 2003, after then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft recused himself, gave him specific authority to investigate "the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a CIA employee's identity," according to another letter from Comey posted on the Web site....

Keep uncovering those rocks, and see what crawls out.