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Bush spoke of some “background noise” yesterday and how it wouldn’t prevent him from doing his job. There’s some background noise all right and most of it has to do with White House officials talking to their lawyers as they go back and forth to the grand jury investigation on the CIA leak case.

A few months ago, it was all about Karl Rove. Now it’s at the very least about Rove and Scooter Libby. Some are speculating that others are involved. The list of possible co-conspirators include Cheney, Bush, and even the White House gigolo, Jeff Gannon/Guckert.

Here’s the latest from The New York Times:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - As he weighs whether to bring criminal charges in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, is focusing on whether Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, sought to conceal their actions and mislead prosecutors, lawyers involved in the case said Thursday.

Among the charges that Mr. Fitzgerald is considering are perjury, obstruction of justice and false statement - counts that suggest the prosecutor may believe the evidence presented in a 22-month grand jury inquiry shows that the two White House aides sought to cover up their actions, the lawyers said.

Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby have been advised that they may be in serious legal jeopardy, the lawyers said, but only this week has Mr. Fitzgerald begun to narrow the possible charges. The prosecutor has said he will not make up his mind about any charges until next week, government officials say.

With the term of the grand jury expiring in one week, though, some lawyers in the case said they were persuaded that Mr. Fitzgerald had all but made up his mind to seek indictments. None of the lawyers would speak on the record, citing the prosecutor’s requests not to talk about the case.

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But Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby may not be the only people at risk. There may be others in the government who could be charged for violations of the disclosure law or of other statutes, like the espionage act, which makes it a crime to transmit classified information to people not authorized to receive it.

I don’t like the way these guys operate on any level, so I’d like to see them all indicted and hauled off to jail: Rove, Libby, Cheney, Bush, and they might as well throw Gannon in there to make it a real jailhouse party.