Don't think much of it. It seems to maybe reflect the thoughts of someone frustrated that Rove was not indicted and their feeling that nothing happened during a long period of time that the press said little about the story. The fact is the press was not supposed to know what was taking place. What a rarity that is that Fitzgerald could run such a tight ship and actually do things as they were supposed to be done. Unlike Ken Starr who intentionally ran a media sideshow. It does not at all jibe with the facts that Rove manipulated this investigation. It was not central to the issue that this end with a Rove indictment, like Watergate what came out of this investigation is there was a cover-up. That one of the central players in this cover-up was the top advisor to the vice president and that he got caught attempting to mislead and hinder an investigation into who outed an undercover CIA operative is no small matter and not at all an outcome Rove would have wanted or rooted for.
Keep something in mind here...there is going to be a public trial. The Bush Administration has not been put on trial before. Cheney and Bush and the major players have skirted having to testify under oath in the past. At the very least Cheney and Rove will be called to testify at this trial. Cheney may invoke executive privilege but the fact remains the record at present shows Cheney was Libby's source with regards to the identity of Ms. Plame. That is no small fact. It is central to the charges that face Libby why Cheney and he discussed Plame and why shortly after that discussion Libby began feeding Plame's name and identity to reporters. Perhaps this is why Libby was indicted and Rove was not...yet. Fitzgerald was able to establish a clear timeline and source path for how the information passed down the chain through Libby and on to reporters. With Rove perhaps the path was not as clear and it would seem Fitzgerald is only going to prosecute charges he can prove. He's kept his focus narrow.
How can you prosecute the leakers when you have top officials in the Bush administration attempting to hinder your investigation? You don't. You prosecute those attempting to hinder your investigation and muddy the waters. It was clear that top officials in the administration did not want to lay the cards on the table here and so you can't prosecute who leaked if they are attempting to cover it up. So simply what you do is put the cover-up on trial and that's what we have with the charges against Libby. That in no way, shape, or form could be deemed a "good thing" for Rove or Bushco.
The goal now for the Bush Administration is damage control, the key point being don't let this issue implicate the president. Though if it implicates Rove and Cheney that may not even matter. Bush is the patsy president, he has never steered the ship or led this country. These guys are a very odd group and Cheney, Libby, and Rove have more to do with the direction we've gone in as a nation than Bush. Fitzgerald has handed out an indictment and put 30 years in prison and a whopper fine in front of a guy that knows way too much about how Bushco conducts its business. They are in trouble and they have few options at this point. There is about to be a public trial and it can't start soon enough.
