I confess, I'm surprised and disappointed that the focus appears to be on Libby and Rove and that it's looking like Fitzgerald is focusing on the idiotic Plame and her blasted name.
It makes no sense if he could establish early on that she was not undercover---and/or that even if she were that the other elements of the statute were not even close to being violated by anything Rove or Libby did.
The good guys have a right to defend themselves and it makes me sick to think he is really looking into that aspect.
We shall see.
We need to keep in mind that neither Rove nor Libby nor anyone else in the admin had any reason to believe that revealing Plame's role in the Niger trip would ever lead to this huge brouhaha, and that their recollections of how and from whom they learned this info might indeed be fuzzy. Plame's identity was known to many, and was probably circulating through personal gossip, through reporters, and through official or semi-official channels, all of them forming a huge feedback loop. I really don't think Fitzgerald is going to try to turn any inconsistencies in who-told-who-first into a perjury rap, especially if there is no underlying crime to begin with.