Radar Magazine headline: “Plame Indictments Imminent”:
The D.C. Rumor mill is thrumming with whispers that 22 indictments are about to be handed down on the outed-CIA agent Valerie Plame case. The last time the wires buzzed this loud — that Tom DeLay would be indicted and would step down from his leadership post in the House — the scuttlebutters got it right.
Can it be a coincidence that the White House appears to be distancing President Bush from embattled aide Karl Rove? “He’s been missing in action at more than one major presidential event,� a member of the White House press corps tells us.
If the word on the street is right a second time, we have a bit of advice for Rove: Go with vertical stripes, they’re way more slimming.
UPDATE: The word on Capitol Hill, according to Raw Story? Rove has received a target letter.
One can only hope.
Rumor Mill
Americablog (permanent link bloggered) notes that Karl Rove has been absent from White House functions that he normally attends (such as Mr. BushÂ’s recent press conference). Speculation is that his absence is the beginning of a process in which…