[Queen of Excelsior]

It's refreshing to see a news story with just the facts. No speculation, no un-named sources. Makes for a pretty short article, though, which shows the media hasn't a clue what's going to happen.

[Alice au Wonderland]

It's refreshing to see a news story with just the facts. No speculation, no un-named sources. Makes for a pretty short article...And, therein, lies the difference between reporting and journalism. If only the MSM would get the hint. *sigh*

[SF Republican]

That is true, it happens so rarely these days.

[joebuck]

"It's refreshing to see a news story with just the facts. No speculation, no un-named sources."

Yeah, but it everyone did that MSM news broadcasts would only be about 30 seconds long.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Much more typical AP release here:

Grand jury in CIA leak case adjourns

INteresting excerpt .....

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Fitzgerald has been in Washington since Monday and over the last two days dispatched FBI agents to conduct some 11th-hour interviews, according to lawyers close to the investigation, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

One set of interviews occurred in the neighborhood of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, whose wife Valerie Plame was outed as an undercover CIA officer. Agents asked neighbors whether they had any inkling that Plame works for the CIA.

"They wanted to know how well we knew her, which is very well," said neighbor David Tillotson. "Did we know anything about her position before the story broke? Absolutely not."

Agents also interviewed a former unidentified associate of Rove about his activities around the time the leaks occurred.

Two lawyers familiar with the activities said the interviews involved basic fact-checking and did not appear to plow new ground.

Fitzgerald may want to establish Plame had carefully protected her CIA identity as part of the process of determining whether the disclosure of her name amounted to a crime.

[liberty_lvr]

Ummm, not so fast...

Fitzgerald is known to be putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe that has ensnared two senior White House aides.

If inclusion on the witness list (which is all we know for a fact at this point) ensnares somebody, then there were a few more people than just two senior WH aides involved.

The AP just couldn't resist, could they?

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

It's refreshing to see a news story with just the facts. No speculation, no un-named sources.

Fitzgerald is known to be putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe that has ensnared two senior White House aides.

And we know this how?
All together now...can we say "Rumor & Innuendo".

Regards,
GtG

[Nevermore]

Except "ensnared two White House aides". There's no indication that it did any such thing - yet, anyway.