"This is an unmitigated disaster and could ultimately lead to the impeachment of President Bush."
And I thought I was paranoid.
/sarcasm
The coming months will be difficult, but unless there is some powerful evidence that has never yet been hinted at in public I find it difficult to believe there is any guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt" for these matters. Certainly it is beyond easy to see "reasonable doubt" about every lying POS reporter of the MSM who might say "I learned X or Y or Z" from Libby or Rove. I don't think a competent defense attorney should have too much trouble winning acquittals on these matters, but I'm no lawyer!! And it is liberal Washington, DC, after all, unless there is some way to win a change of venue to Virginia.
I think the impeachment possibility is still remote, but the 'Rats will base the 2006 Congressional campaigns around using any ridiculous indictments to smear the Bush administration. If there were a majority of Demagogues elected to the House in 2006 then the I-word would be seriously pursued. Doubt they could win in the Senate for conviction, though, unless 2006 proved to be an enormous electoral catastrophe for Republican senatorial candidates, too.
If Fitzgerald really does go for indictments* against Libby and/or Rove then I would think they must push for rapid early trials and aim for vindication before real juries (remember how it's said that a GJ can be much more closely controlled by a prosecutor, and there's no real defense presented to a GJ). I can't believe this nonsense is happening, but there may be emails or statements to the GJ, etc. that have led one or more administration figures into a "perjury trap."
*Which the Grand Jury has to vote for, but I supposed that would be almost a foregone conclusion if a prosecutor recommends indictments of leading Republicans to a GJ in the Demagogic heaven of Washington, DC.