They're starting to figure it out

Jacob Weisberg is looking beyond a celebration over the indictment of Karl Rove and possibly even Dick Cheney. I think that a lot of links in Washington may dry up if Rove or Libby gets indicted. I would serve journalists right if it did. This wouldn't have happened if the press hadn't made such a big deal out of what was obviously a non-scandal.

The Washington Post is breathlessly reporting that Fitzgerald is looking into Cheney's involvement:

The prosecutor has assembled evidence that suggests Cheney's long-standing tensions with the CIA contributed to the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame.

Suggests to whom? This would make sense if she were really a covert operative. She wasn't and isn't. Otherwise, wouldn't the CIA have made a fuss over her appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair?

Oh, well. Some bloggers [cough, Tom Maquire] are into this up to their armpits. Fortunately, though, most of us have other things to think about.

Howard Kurtz looks at the fury swirling over this case and finds a tornado that could tear through Washington, but leave the rest of the country safe, dry and astonished.

Update: Fox News reports on Brit Humes grapevine that the stories about the investigation pointing toward Cheney are greeted with a laugh at the White House.