Fitzmas in April?

Yepp, Rove-a-palooza's back in full force with speculation that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald finally has him by the short hairs. Here's Raw Story:

[A]n MSNBC report tonight revealed that one of Rove's lawyers said the presidential adviser described his fifth grand jury appearance as "hell." MSNBC's David Shuster appeared live on Keith Olbermann's 8pm show this evening and stated that Rove was surprised by the tone of the questions as well as the length of time he was required to testify.
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The three and a half hour duration is considered highly unusual for a fifth appearance before a grand jury, Shuster reported. Also not boding well for Rove is the fact that the grand jury plans to meet tomorrow.

Hoooboy, another grand jury get-together! You can watch the Shuster video over at Crooks and Liars.

Salon's War Room also posits an interesting theory:

As we reported Wednesday, Robert Luskin said that his client's latest testimony concerned "a matter raised since Mr. Rove's last appearance in October 2005." We knew about two things that have happened since Rove's October grand jury appearance: Bob Woodward came forward to say that someone had leaked Valerie Plame's identity to him back in 2003, and we all learned about the way in which Viveca Novak apparently tipped off Luskin to Rove's leak of Plame's identity to Time's Matthew Cooper.

Well, it turns out there was at least one more post-October development: In the very last line of her [New York] Times story today, Anne Kornblut says that Robert Novak "has testified to the grand jury since Mr. Rove's last appearance in October 2005." Why? When? Kornblut doesn't say; she doesn't even say how she knows that Novak testified.

Novak was the first reporter to put Plame's identity into print. We know the second source for his outing column was Rove; the identity of the first source, described only as a "senior administration official" who isn't a "partisan gunslinger," remains one of the central mysteries of the case. Novak said the other day that Fitzgerald has known the answer "for years," but he wouldn’t say much else. "I'm not going to tell you because it's none of your damn business," he said. We can only presume that he was a little more forthcoming under oath.