Yeah and the Earth is still flat and the moon is made of green cheese, and my client never lies!

When did it become some sort of defense to go into criminal proceedings with a shit eating grin on your face (see Tom DeLay booking pictures, pictures of Karl Rove reporting to the grand jury).

Talk about a lack of gravitas. The hope is that they are preventing the use of the pictures during campaigns, but the picture of Rove yesterday says more than a thousand words, "I can do whatever I want and you can't touch me"

Reminds me of the pictures of the gingerbread man in my childhood book, "Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man" with his raisin smile.

I just hope that Fitzpatrick is the right fox waiting at the right stream.

<<Update: Truthout is reporting that sources "knowledgeable about the probe" are saying that Fitzgerald has notified Luskin in a letter that his client is, in fact, a target of the investigation. At the federal courthouse in Washington, a spokesman for Rove just told Salon's Michael Scherer that the report is "utterly false.">>

Umm...Gee...Based on about 5 1/2 years of stupefying consistency on the part of Rove et al., just who would you surmise is telling the truth here?

The problem here is that we don't know enough about the circumstances under which Luskin received the information from Fitzgerald. Was it today? Was it three weeks ago? Was it before or after Rove testified today?

The implication -- or spin as you will -- is that Rove's testimony went so well, or was so unimportant, that the prosecutors told Luskin that Rove is not a target. Such a statement by a prosecutor would be highly unusual, not least because most prosecutors would want some time to digest the testimony to the grand jury.

So, all in all, I wouldn't put too much faith in Luskin's statement about Fitzgerald's advice, as a prediction of what the future holds, or what Fitzgerald will do.

...until they slap him with an indictment.

Darn. Drat and tarnation.