Never in my memory has so much been made over nothing.
Problem is prosecutors are in the business of finding someone to blame for everything. He was appointed for a reason, so he assumes a crime must be there; otherwise why ask for him to look into it. It's just human nature. Plus it's tempered by the fact...if he's wrong the jury will acquit. I'm sure that info will be brought up at trial (if it goes to trial..usually these guys get a plea bargain like Sandy Burglar).
Rove will face prison time if he loses or admit to guilt and get probation. Either way his political career is over. The damage is done. Remember this isn't a local state prosecutor like the Delay case. If an indictment comes out against anyone it will hurt.
"FIRST, decide aye or nay whether Valerie was an agent UNDER COVER. I know that she was ON THE COVER of a national magazine w/her well-known blabber mouthed husband, Joe Wilson. Oh, she had on sun glasses and wore a scarf over her head? OKAY...'under cover'"
She and Wilson only did that some time after the Novak article identified her as a "CIA operative." At that point, if she had cover, it was already blown.
An example: There's a formerly secret bomb shelter for Congress in West Virginia, at the Greenbrier Resort. The secret came out, and Congress immediately gave up the notion of ever using it. Now it's on the brochures for the Greenbrier, as a tourist attraction. Those brochures are not "blowing the cover" of the formerly secret bomb shelter.
.....Never in my memory has so much been made over nothing....
Which in my conspiratorial mind means that there is something unknown to us causing the uproar. Judith Miller did not go to jail to protect the Scooter source. When we learn why she went to jail, we may learn the secret