Et Tu Karl?

There's been a steady trickle of Plame information recently. Last week it was disclosed that the grand jury interviewed Colin Powell. Today the media is all a twitter with news that a TIME correspondent may go to jail and that Li'l Russ rolled over. The speculation for months has been that the investigation is targetting Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby. I'm certainly not in a position to discredit that analysis.

But I wonder this: Where is Karl Rove?

We're in the midst of a tough election campaign which George Bush is currently losing. Where is Dubya's chief politico? Ken Mehlman is seemingly everwhere. Karl Rove has vanished.

In 2000 it was Karl Rove who was everywhere talking about Bush's impending 330 point electoral landslide. Why, this time, is he being kept locked in Cheney's secure location?

Could it be that the Bushies know that Karl is implicated in the ongoing investigation? Is keeping Karl hidden now part of a strategy to minimze the fallout when he's indicted later this year?

Hard to know. But I look forward to finding out.