Can’t tell the indictees-to-be without a scorecard

Say goodnight, Karl

Josh Marshall sure called this right.

It looks like the AP is burying the Bushian Caesar , not praising him.

On the one hand, this news certainly fits the backroom talking about an inside-the-White-House war over special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation of the Valerie Plame leak.

FINEMAN: And that runs through a whole lot of things, whether it‘s Harriet Miers or Katrina. But it all starts with Iraq.

And some submerged, but now emerging divisions within the administration over why we went into that war, how we went into that war and what was done to sell it. There are people are out for Karl Rove inside that White House, which makes his situation even more perilous.

On the other hand, if the Huffington Post is correct then Rove is winning and Cheney is on the outs.

The rats certainly appear to be abandoning the sinking ship. The question is, which other rats' heads will they push beneath the surface in their panic to escape?

Update:
It appears Huffington Post may be right Fitzgerald may be further expanding the investigation.

Lawyers familiar with the investigation believe that at least part of the outcome likely hangs on the inner workings of what has been dubbed the White House Iraq Group. Formed in August 2002, the group, which included Messrs. Rove and Libby, worked on setting strategy for selling the war in Iraq to the public in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion. The group likely would have played a significant role in responding to Mr. Wilson's claims.

Meanwhile, Cheney’s mouthpiece is ducking the country.

The chief spokesman for Vice President Dick Cheney, Steve Schmidt, left the United States Oct. 3 and won't return until Oct. 26, just as the investigation into who outed a covert CIA agent wraps up, RAW STORY has confirmed.

Perhaps he and Nino Scalia can do some Italian duck-hunting together while looking for Roman sources of that Niger forgery.