Update: Democratic Daily asks whether a sitting vice president can be indicted. Dan Froomkin says yes. I put the question to a former Independent Counsel from a past administration I ran into last weekend and also was told yes.
Update: Don't miss John Nichol's just posted piece at the Nation on why Cheney won't be indicted. I agree. At most Cheney will be an unindicted conspirator. As I opined here:
It's possible there will be no indictments in this case. But, my instincts tell me there will be, and they will relate to perjury and making a false statement to a federal official, or a conspiracy of some sort, rather than to the actual leak of Valerie Plame's identity. Maybe Cheney will be one of those caught in a false statements or conspiracy charge. Since he's considered the most powerful man in Washington, it's unlikely. His staff, and the White House Iraq Group, however, may not fare so well. And Rove's biggest liability may be his story that he first heard of Plame from a reporter, but he can't remember which one, and that his call to Matt Cooper was initially about welfare reform. That's about as convincing as a drug dealer who agrees to cooperate and then says he can't remember who sold him the kilo of coke.
Another great post today: David Corn.
