Informed Speculation

For your day is not yet past…there have been intimations lately that Karl Rove may not be out of the woods yet in the PlameGate investigation, and today’s news adds fuel to that fire:

Top White House aide Karl Rove prepared to testify Wednesday for a fifth time before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer’s identity, a person familiar with the case told NBC News.

Rove consulted with his private lawyers before a scheduled afternoon court appearance and was prepared to answer questions about evidence that emerged since his last grand jury appearance last fall, the person said, speaking only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy rules.

That new evidence includes information that emerged late last year that Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, had conversations with Time magazine reporter Viveca Novak during a critical time in the case.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury earlier on Wednesday.

Among other things he is investigating why Rove originally failed to disclose to prosecutors that he had talked to Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper about the outed CIA operative, Valerie Plame, back in 2003.

Months before Rove acknowledged speaking to Cooper about the CIA status of Plame, Novak told Rove’s lawyer the White House aide might have disclosed Plame’s CIA work to Cooper.

Put me in the skeptical department, still – skeptical that Rove will actually be indicted, that is. It just seems that it would have happened by now…still, never say never…the story is still somewhat breaking, but already the previously disappointed Fitz Fanatics are starting to stir…