Reposting my musings about grand jury extension with a new poll.
I'm not a lawyer, so this is just complete speculation from my side. I would love for some lawyers to provide commentary. But isn't extending the grand jury the most obvious thing to expect from Fitzgerald at this point? Especially if some people have recently started cooperating? Wouldn't he want to push the investigation as far as possible? Everyone on here is cracking their heads as to why he's waiting till the last day - it makes me think that maybe he isn't at all. Maybe he's decided a while ago to extend the grand jury and is just being tight lipped as usual. Unless there's some legal technicality that explains it all (like he was supposed to publicly file for grand jury extension two weeks ago or something). I mean, a lot of people are peeing from anticipation, but come on, if he extends the grand jury, that's twice as awesome. That's totally Macchiavellian torture for the rats who're already starting to flee the ship.
Basically, the question is - if the special prosecutor uncovered some other crimes in the process of his investigation that are peripheral (or even not) to the original matter, what would his process be? And I don't mean perjury as peripheral. I mean, for example, if he somehow miraculously unearthed a potential forger of Niger documents like some people have suggested. Would he then continue to dig? Would he hand it off? Or would he issue a first series of indictments and THEN continue to dig with a new grand jury in tow? My guess was the latter, assuming there are no technical reasons that prevent him from doing that. I'm now even more convinced that's what's gonna happen, because it seems like he did issue some indictments.