David Johnston and Richard W. Stevenson (Extracted from "No Final Report Seen in Inquiry on C.I.A. Leak", New York Times, 19 October 2005)

"The special counsel in the C.I.A. leak case has told associates he has no plans to issue a final report about the results of the investigation, heightening the expectation that he intends to bring indictments, lawyers in the case and law enforcement officials said yesterday."

[Ed Apparently, this means that Patrick Fitzgerald may be narrowing his options in order to indict Karl Rove, President Bush's senior advisor and I. Lewis Libby, Vice-president Cheney's chief of staff (and maybe even Cheney himself -- the real President of America -- in due course) on the grounds that they disclosed the name of a secret agent. In Elizabethan days this sort of disclosure used to be called treason and punishable by death by various gory means. That needn't happen today. The indictment alone would be hugely beneficial to America's political health and give us some hope that honesty in government might prevail.]