Reader JH notes, that Newsweek is reporting that Fitzgerald intended to impanel a new grand jury, "a move that could have kept Miller in jail for another year and a half." Also this:

...Tate acknowledges that Libby did indeed tell Miller that Iraq war critic Joe Wilson's wife (Plame) had arranged for Wilson to take a CIA-sponsored trip to Africa to probe reports that Iraq was seeking uranium for a nuclear bomb. But he says Libby did not know Plame's real name nor her undercover status at the CIA. Nor, he says, did Libby talk to Robert Novak, the columnist whose story outing Plame prompted the criminal probe in the first place...

If not Libby, who was Novak's second source (after Rove)?

Update: And, given the theory that what Fitzgerald is aiming for is a criminal conspiracy charge, not the Identities Protection Act, does it matter if Libby knew Plame's name or not, but was nevertheless involved in pushing the story that Wilson got the Niger gig because of his wife, who works for the CIA? If there was a conspiracy, involving Rove, Libby, and others in the White House to out Wilson's wife to reporters in order to retaliate against Wilson, it wouldn't seem to matter whether Hadley knew her name or status. They were clearly encouraging reporters to go dig it out.

Posted by Laura at October 2, 2005 02:28 PM