The NYT's David Johnston reports tonight that, "Lawyers with clients in the case have said that the rapid flow of events and intensity of Mr. Fitzgerald's final push suggest that the prosecutor is preparing to accuse someone of wrongdoing. But it is not known who may be charged or what possible violations may be involved." His report focuses on the potential legal jeopardy of Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby. And like the NYT, the Washington Post's Barton Gellmann and Walter Pincus report that Miller's lawyer Robert Bennett believes Libby may have a "problem" in the Fitzgerald probe:

..."If he said that he had not talked to Judy about these things or didn't talk about the wife, then he's got a problem," Bennett said, referring to CIA operative Valerie Plame, the woman at the center of the leak investigation. Miller told prosecutors that "to the best of her recollection she did not know of" Plame's employment at the CIA "before she spoke to Mr. Libby," he said.

Bennett would not speculate whether Libby was trying to steer Miller's eventual testimony -- an action that could be considered an attempt to obstruct justice, through an alleged suggestion by his lawyer and language in a personal letter sent to her last month that encouraged her to testify.

But he did call Libby's reference to part of the Sept. 15 letter to Miller "very troubling." ...

Update: The WSJ has a nice summary of the key new information learned over the weekend, including a brief interview with Miller.

Posted by Laura at October 16, 2005 11:36 PM