There are two parts of this puzzle that continue to bother me:
1. Why would Miller sit in jail for Rove or any Republican?
2. Why would the special prosecutor continue the investigation if he could find no law broken? If it were me, I would shut the investigation down as soon as I hit a terminal dead end, write a report and get back to making big lawyer bucks.
Several months ago Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, issued one of his rare statements on this case. Ignored by almost everyone except a few people on FR was a comment that the investigation had branched out into other issues. BTW even Fox News has ignored that statement.
IIRC one of the other issues was a planned raid on a phony Islamonazi "charity" that was leaked and somebody tipped off the "charity" in time to thwart the raid.
Now I'm not saying the reporter tipped off the Islamonazis, but she MIGHT have been one of the people contacted by the leaker and that MIGHT be the source she's protecting...
Or it could be about some other branch that investigation developed.
I agree that those are puzzling questions. There are a few more:
Why is there a special prosecutor at all if, as seems to be the consensus here, there was nothing to "out" about Plame (and hence no possibility of a crime);
Why is one jounalist in jail and another threatened with jail if the "outing" of Plame was so meaningless and utterly harmless;
Why did Rove deny that he had any involvement at all when he was asked by McClellan;
Why didn't Rove correct McClellan when McClellan publically announced that Rove had no involvement at all (thus putting the White House in its present hot seat trying to explain the contradiction between then and now);
What did Rove tell the grand jury;
Does it matter that the offical position of the White House was that it would fire anybody involved, and that the position seems to have softened considerably since the discovery that Rove was involved (even tangentially);
Why was McClellan so defensive during the press conference yesterday, and who told him to dodge all questions with the excuse that he couldn't talk during an ongoing investigation (when he was clearly free to talk previously about the case); and
If it's all so harmless and meaningless, why is McLellan under instructions not to talk until the ongoing investigation is completed?