To the dismay of some, Fitzgerald investigation not over

While many on the right are convincing themselves the Fitzgerald investigation is over, the person overseeing the investigaton, Fitzgerald himself, strongly disagrees.

While Rove faces doubts about his White House status, there are new indications that he remains in legal jeopardy from Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's criminal investigation of the Plame leak. The prosecutor spoke this week with an attorney for Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper about his client's conversations with Rove before and after Plame's identity became publicly known because of anonymous disclosures by White House officials, according to two sources familiar with the conversation.

Fitzgerald is considering charging Rove with making false statements in the course of the 22-month probe, and sources close to Rove who holds the titles of senior adviser and White House deputy chief of staff said they expect to know within weeks whether the most powerful aide in the White House will be accused of a crime.

In the mean time the security risk remains in the white House. Any they wonder why they have lost the trust factor with the American people?