While it is true that nothing much has come of the Fitzgerald investigation into White House involvement in revealing what are supposed to be State secrets, the identity of a covert agent, I am still expecting something to come of it. We hear that Rove won't be indicted, but the special investigator isn't the source of that information.

Today, a small event gave another ripple spreading across the pond.

The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two Times reporters in a leak investigation of a terrorism-funding probe.

The one-sentence order came in a First Amendment battle that involves stories written in 2001 by Times reporters Judith Miller and Philip Shenon. The stories revealed the government's plans to freeze the assets of two Islamic charities, the Holy Land Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation.

Like the CIA leak investigation into who in the Bush administration revealed the identity of Valerie Plame, the current Justice Department probe is being conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, who is prosecuting Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff in the Plame case.
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Fitzgerald said the statute of limitations "on certain substantive offenses that the grand jury is investigating" will expire on Dec. 3 and Dec. 13 of this year.

From all that we've been told about Fitzgerald's work, I expect thoroughness. And I still think that the criminals will be brought into court.

I also expect there are pardons waiting for them. If the actual sentences were to occur after the end of this administration, it might be a very good thing.

The jury is in, and I'm still expecting justice.