Reply #70: 2 things: I kinda doubt Tweety planned and promoted a Rovathon program

[Garbo 2004]

just based on the grand jury's schedule of meeting on Friday. Was Tweety simply duped by a schedule and his own exuberance? Or did Tweety have some info that seriously led him to believe things were going down on Friday? He expected a public announcement. There wasn't one. Did nothing happen on Friday? Or did something happen but did not culminate in a public announcement as anticipated?

And as you noted, unless I missed something, it appeared to me there was virtually dead air Friday night in regard to the Plame matter and the expectations. Not even a "No announcements from Fitz today but rumors continue to swirl..." Perhaps I just missed relevant coverage but if I didn't my impression is like there was almost a blackout on the story Friday night.

2: I recall when Larry Johnson posted a link on his blog to Larisa's story that Plame's work concerned Iran and nuke proliferation monitoring. At the time she was all alone out there on that info IIRC. And no "legit" media picked up on it. I found that not just interesting but a sort of not so overt affirmation of the story. If Johnson knew or learned what Plame was working on I doubt he would/could say. If the story was suspect or completely unfounded (and he might be in a position to know) would he link to it? JMO admittedly, but I thought not.

Now maybe Mr. Johnson was just all caught up in the moment and just casually posted a link to Leopold's story in an excess of glee and a lack of caution as to the basis and credibility of Leopold's article. But maybe he didn't.

Admittedly, I'm just reading old leftover tea leaves and am just speculating. I'm just not so sure that just because we didn't hear that something happened via the usual corporate venues means nothing happened of any significance.

And ok a third thing: Fitz made it clear at the Libby indictment press conference that grand jury stuff is secret and that which does not result in or is related to an indictment won't be public. He's not an independent prosecutor and there will be no report of findings. So whoever may have cooperated and cut a deal to avoid indictment and much other stuff may never be revealed. (And yeah, that irks me to no end. LOL)