Fitzmas Cancelled!

Well, maybe not cancelled, but at least we won't be getting our Red Ryder BB Gun this year...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- White House senior adviser Karl Rove has been told by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald that he will not be charged in the CIA leak case, according to Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer.

Now this information comes from Luskin, the mouth breathing scumbag currently representing Rove. Special Prosecutor Pat Fitzgerald isn't talking about it right now, as is his wont, so really, who the hell knows what's up.

For more, read FireDog's take on all of this... she does indeed have some things to contemplate...

But of course, that will bring out the chorus of haters, left and right to caper with drooling joy as they heap derision and mockery upon Jason Leopold and Truthout and anyone else for that fact who believed Rove could be indicted.

There are a couple of things though I thought I might run past some folks. We do know that on May 25th, about the time of all the speculation about the pending indictment, Fitz' Grand Jury dropped indictment 1-06-cr-128: SEALED v. SEALED. This is apparently the indicting documents against Rove that will not now see the light of day, or at least that is the speculation. It will be interesting to see if the case of SEALED v. SEALED gets dismissed now...

I will not get into the whole "did Jason Leopold lie, get played, hallucinate?" Things are rarely as simple as that in big time investigative journalism. I still think they deserve props for taking a big chance and taking a big cut at the ball. Sometimes you get beat on a story like that. It happens. Get up off the mat, dust yourself off and get after the next one.

And try not to get that one wrong...

But as for alternative explanations, there are a few ideas floating around. Could it be that Rove has been cooperating for the past weeks? Is there someone even higher in the theoretical food chain that Rove rolled on? Could it be that the recently reviatlized "Fitz-is-the-Devil" narrative filtering down through echo chamber into the brain stems of East Blogistan mean that something else really is on the horizon?

I am not sure this is really good news if I'm Stephen Hadley, Michael Ledeen, John Bolton, or any other handful of cranks in Vice President Big Time's orbit... Moreover, could Big Time himself, no particular fan of Rove, be in jeopardy? We will see...

Stay tuned, sportsfans...