It is notable that last week, the phone number listed on Fitz's new web page was answered with the greeting "Counterintelligence" at DoJ. The reason given was that Fitz and his nomadic staff just coincidentally happened to be crammed into that particular office space at DoJ, and didn't have their own telephone.
Right, a two year investigation with no telephone. Sorry, not plausible. Why concoct such an absurd cover?
Because this is first and foremost a counterintelligence investigation, not a political one, and it's not about trivial political perjury or certainly about Plame's long-disproven status as a "covert agent".
So if there is any truth whatsoever to Rove and Libby being "targets", it is only at the end of a very long chain that begins with Wilson, Plame, and their pals at the CIA, and the injection of false documents and false statements into the intelligence process.
You don't maintain a counterintelligence investigation for two years over two or four or even ten acts of alleged "perjury".
This is pretty certainly the real story behind the Plame/Wilson affair: an attempt to embarrass and undermine President Bush jointly mounted by French intelligence and rogue CIA agents.
I alternate between hoping that Fitzgerald may actually be intent on ferreting out the truth and fearing that he may be coopted by the media into indicting Libby or Rove on some weak technicality. Wouldn't it be splendid if he turns out to be Eliot Ness and actually indicts the bad guys?