AlterNet: Smoking Guns and Red Herrings:

• We should not expect a final resolution any time soon.
• We should not expect to hear much more from Fitzgerald.
• We should not expect a smoking gun.
• We should not expect the President to take steps to "get to the bottom of this."
• We should expect red herrings from the defense (even if not smoking guns from the prosecution).
• We should expect more attacks on Joseph Wilson, even though they represent a very large red herring (more the size of a mackerel).
• We should expect another red herring, one that should have been thrown back in the river long ago...
• We should expect attempts by pundits to derive "meaning" from the absence of charges under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act or the Espionage Act.
• We should expect a campaign to demonize Fitzgerald through claims that he is overzealous and has exceeded his authority.
• We should also expect pundits to argue that this prosecution is political.
• But should we expect, given the Republicans' attempts to belittle and politicize the case thus far, that President Bush will pardon his senior administration official if Libby is convicted on these serious charges?

(Via AlterNet.)