They got nothin. Do you think Rove and Libby would have let Miller and Cooper talk to the grand jury if they had something to hide? Karl is just toying with Fitzgerald. He's probably having a good laugh at all this.
Not that I think Fitzgerald won't try to get an inditement. He's another sleazy political prosecutor just like Ronnie Earl. But he's got nothin.
Personally, I don't have any opinions about this whole thing because I got bored with it a long time ago. I'll read the accounts if/when Fitzgerald issues an indictment or a report.
That being said, trust me: Nobody with any brains toys with anybody who has the power to subpoena, indict, and prosecute.
The news accounts stress that Earle is Travis County prosecutor. What is more relevant is that Travis County is a more leftist venue than most in Texas, being the seat of the state government AND the site of the main campus of the University of Texas. If Earle prosecuted Democrats, there are a lot more in his jurisdiction than there are Republicans. The probability is that those Democrats whom he prosecuted were the more conservative Democrats. Libs can get back to us with this bedtime story when Earle indicts someone like Congressman Lloyd Doggett.
Meanwhile, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is a Democrat from the Northeast who cut his teeth on prosecuting the five, ummmm, families of New York as US Attorney for New Jersey. Unlike most Clinton era US Attorneys, this guy actually did a quite competent job. It brought him to the attention of then Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL), the last honest major Republican in Illinois who delivered the republic from his predecessor Carol Mostly Fraud. Senator Fitzgerald brought US Attorney Fitzgerald in to simultaneously prosecute former Governor Lyin' George Ryan (now on trial for 22 counts of fraud in government [but I repeat myself]) AND Richie Daley's Chicago Machine. Richie is sweating so much that Lake Michigan has risen three inches during a summer of drought and that's no global warming fantasy (actually the lake is not rising but I'm Irish and why let the facts get in the way of a good story?). Richie IS sweating bullets. Dubya's administration liked Fitzgerald's Illinois prosecution of the Chicago machine s much that he added one more task to the very talented Fitzpatrick's platter. If Richie AND Ryan go to prison, I would gladly elect Prosecutor Fitzgerald as Governor. He is no liberal either.
Ronnie Earle had nothin' but he still issued an indictment and generated lots of MSM spin against Delay, and also forced Delay to resign from the Majority Leader position.
If Fitzgerald is not vigorously exploring every aspect of MSM collusion with Joe Wilson in perpetrating the whole "Niger uranium" hoax on the public then Fitzgerald is falling down on the job. I sure hope the GJ results will not be a furtherance of the MSM spin machine, but the 'Rats have certainly controlled the agenda on this story thus far.... does Fitzgerald have the sense to see beyond the talking points fed to him by Joe Wilson and the DNC, or not???