By the way, I don't think I can even take the survey because so much depends on who rolls over for the prosecutor. It looks like most of the attention at the moment is focused on the Vice President's office. A couple of Cheney's aides are actively cooperating with Fitzgerald.

The VP himself could very well be a target. Even Bush could become an "unindicted co-conspirator" ala Nixon during Watergate. Recent stories made it clear that while Bush was claiming not to know who leaked the information, and was expressing his desire to the public to 'get to the bottom of the matter', Rove had already told the president that he, and presumably others on his staff, had been involved!

Libby and Rove both were called before the grand jury repeatedly. It does seem as if they changed their story at different times and were called back to "clarify" their previous statements. That could leave them both open to perjury or obstruction of justice charges.

The same is true of Judy Miller. She conveniently seemed to have "forgotten" about an early conversation she had with Scooter Libby regarding Plame... until she was reminded by Fitzgerald who was able to wave in her face the Secret Service paperwork recording the date and time of their meeting. Only then did she dig out her notes of the session.

Again, so much depends on things that we can't know at the moment: deals, perjury traps, just how much paperwork the White House managed to shred before Fitzgerald could get his hands on it...

I'm almost certain though that there will be some indictments. The leaks that there have been all point in that direction. The fact that Fitzgerald just put up a website also seems to indicate that he isn't prepared to shut down his operation just yet.

Hopefully, there will be some super-sexy indictments having to do with national security statutes, but I'll be happy with anything that will hold these guys accountable for the way they vindictively and maliciously "rat___" anybody that stands up to them.

One of the joys of this case is that the White House made a bunch of stupid denials and outright lies early on because they assumed that, as a Justice Department matter, Ashcroft would make sure that nothing ever came of the investigation. Luckily for us, the Justice Department prosecutors were so alarmed at the kinds of things that were being said, and the cavalier way Rove was handling the issue that they pressured Ashcroft to recuse himself from the case and appoint Fitzgerald. Of course, the CIA played a crucial role in pressing the issue as well. It would be nice to see the serious career professionals win a victory over the Mayberry Machiavellis on this one.