I will admit that I have suffered a similar letdown based on the limited indictment. But only for a moment, and not in relation to what I'm writing here. Fitzgerald is so good at genericizing the circumstances, and sticking to the book, he could qualify as being a tease although the subject of said teasing may be absent. That said, here's a potential "silver lining", if one can exist in this scenario.
Wheeeee!
If further indictments are issued, and even if they are not, the prosecutorial process - even if it is solely in relation to Libby - is going to take a while. I have read many comments and posts referring to "what-if's" regarding the timing of this investigation and its completion. Comments to the effect of "we wish this could be happening nearer to the mid-term elections." Well, I may be wrong, but the current state of affairs for the Admin and the Republicans is still an exceptionally bad one from my perspective. It's all over the MSM, and I have heard more than one network linking the current investigation to Niger and the case for war in an exceedingly dramatic flurry of graphics and verbeage. Long story short, if this investigation and subsequent trial is stretched into 2006 sufficiently, the potential political usability could be just as fruitful as if the entire Admin were indicted today. Bush still has the next SCOTUS nominee, his partially dissenting and threat issuing base, the war, peripheral Republican indictments, Rove still under investigation, The VP having made contradictory statements and on and on to deal with between now and the mid-terms. The way I see it, if we play our cards right and think strategically - or "strategicerally" - this
could even be a better scenario than we had hoped for. That pretty much sums it up.
I suppose that is if Fitzgerald doesn't just pack up tomorrow and leave. Either way, we will have Libby and a case that is sure to develop in the future. They still have a lot of 'splaining to do.