Therein lies the rub....
IS he acting independently...or does he have a "sugardaddy" somewhere???
of course.
I also look at it this way. suppose the left knew Fitzgerald wasn't going to indict anyone, or only indict a reporter? what would be the best course to take if they knew that was going to be the outcome? bury this story as fast as possible, stop talking about it, let it go away and publish Fitzgerald's conclusions this week on page 24.
but they aren't shutting up leading into this week - so what does that tell us?
of course, the dream scenario is that the media is being fed dis-information from the GJ. and they are going out on a limb with all these assertions, and that limb is going to be snapped off this week.