Reply #244: As I recall, neither Shuster or Merritt claimed that Rove had been [View All]

indicted. Merritt, a defense attorney not a journalist, looked at the sealed indictment issue simply because TO had said sources told them that Rove was to be indicted under seal and then later claimed that Rove had indeed been indicted. An indictment that was not sealed would be public record. As Merritt noted, the sealed case TO specifically mentioned this week could, for all we know, be a garden variety criminal case unrelated to the Plame matter. And as she also noted, it was filed May 17, not around May 10 as TO reported on Tuesday. http://talkleft.com/new_archives/015081.html http://talkleft.com/new_archives/015081.html .

Lots of people, media and otherwise, thought Rove would be indicted as far back as Cooper's testimony in July 2005. Even Bill Kristol predicted a Rove indictment in October 2005. But only TO publicly asserted that Rove had been indicted on May 12th, 2006.