From O'Donnell's lips to Fitzgerald's ears...

Lawrence O'Donnell, who, if you will remember, was the first to name Rove as a leak source on TV, has the following on my favorite big-titted Greek redhead's blog:

If Karl Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin, is still as easy to read as he has been since I broke the story that his client was Matt Cooper's source, then we now know that Rove has received a target letter from Patrick Fitzgerald. How do we know it? Luskin refuses to deny it.

Fitzgerald does not have to send Rove or anyone else a target letter before indicting him. The only reason to send target letters now is that Fitzgerald believes one or more of his targets will flip and become a prosecution witness at the pre-indictment stage. A veteran prosecutor told me, "If Fitzgerald is sending target letters at the end of his investigation, those are just invitations to come in and work out a deal."

I just heard on Lameball that Rove's scheduled grand jury testimony is "voluntary". Oh, sure. If Fitzgerald told me to "testify or go to jail", I'd volunteer too.

Here's the good part:

If no one RSVPs to Fitzgerald's invitations, look for indictments as early as next week. If anyone does sit down with Fitzgerald, he will probably have to move to extend the grand jury, which now has only thirteen working days left in its term.

Prediction: at least three high level Bush Administration personnel indicted and possibly one or more very high level unindicted co-conspirators.

I'll settle for three. To start.