Grand jury in CIA leak case adjourns(for the day)

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-6/1130328541264201.xml&storylist=

10/26/2005, 1:49 p.m. ET
By PETE YOST and JOHN SOLOMON
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — ...

Away from the federal courthouse, FBI agents conducted a handful of last-minute interviews to check facts key to the case.

After the grand jury left for the day, federal prosecutors conferred for about an hour in the grand jury area of the federal courthouse.

There was no word on whether Fitzgerald planned to make any announcement or when the grand jury planned to meet again.

Fitzgerald and the grand jurors entered the courthouse around 9 a.m. EDT, with just three days left before the jury's term is set to expire. The timing on any decision is uncertain, however. It is possible for Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan to extend the life of the grand jury at Fitzgerald's request. Such a step would be taken in secret...

more delays ...

... and asking the judge to extend the grand jury as the prosecutor has found more wrong doing that is linked to these indictments. Very common place.

If so, that may be a good sign. Fitzgerald got what he asked for.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity met for three hours Wednesday with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and his deputies, adjourning for the day without announcing any action.

Fitzgerald is known to be putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe that has ensnared President Bush's top political adviser Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff I. Lewis Libby.

Away from the federal courthouse, FBI agents conducted a handful of last-minute interviews to check facts key to the case.

After the grand jury left for the day, federal prosecutors conferred for about an hour in the grand jury area of the federal courthouse.

There was no word on whether Fitzgerald planned to make any announcement or when the grand jury planned to meet again.

:rofl:

Just asking since the former director is the one that started the whole mess!