A trial would be the Wilsons and the RATs worst nightmare because Libby and his legal team will then have discovery power. They (RATs) are going to wish they had not gone down this road.
How many people in this Country if you asked them who Libby was would even know or care for that fact?
Would say that Rove is cooperating with the investigation and is still part of it but is not the target except by the RATs and the media. No other reason for them to ask him to keep his testimony secret.
not on a simple "mis-statements" charge, which it appears that Libby will be charged with. His trial will not involve all kinds of discovery into the CIA, Wilson, etc. Its going to be a simple trial about the inconsistencies in his testimony - versus his own notes - as crazy as that sounds - or an obstruction charge regarding his letter to Miller. So I don't think the left fears the trial. If Fitzgerald has joined "team DNC", this Libby move is a squeeze play, and he will use an extension of the GJ to keep Rove under a dark cloud.
We were asking this question last night - does anyone know who has the authority to shut Fitzgerald down?
MSNBC reporting that Cheney and Libby are extremely close and he rides to the WH in Cheney's limo each morning. He's been called "Cheney's Cheney" and both make it a practice to remain silent during meetings and confer together afterwards. I suspect the RATs worse nightmare is to have raised Cheney's ire.