Here Comes the Frogmarcher?

On Friday night, I got an email from FotF Ward Sutton about Jason Leopold's reporting at Truthout.org that Karl Rove was in dire legal jeopardy:

Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job when the special counsel publicly announces the charges against him, according to sources.

I replied to Ward that I wasn't going to chill the champqgne bottle quite yet as I've been burned by Leopold's exuberance in the past. But while I remained oblivious to the rest of the world on a wonderfully sunny Seattle day hanging out with several of my young friends at Cheesefest, it seems Leopold added some more depth to the story (hat tip to B. Shilliday over at Left of Center--a great daily stop if you've not discovered him yet):

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.

During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 business hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.

Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, did not return a call for comment. Sources said Fitzgerald was in Washington, DC, Friday and met with Luskin for about 15 hours to go over the charges against Rove, which include perjury and lying to investigators about how and when Rove discovered that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative and whether he shared that information with reporters, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said.

It was still unknown Saturday whether Fitzgerald charged Rove with a more serious obstruction of justice charge. Sources close to the case said Friday that it appeared very likely that an obstruction charge against Rove would be included with charges of perjury and lying to investigators.

Well, I might just chill some of my new favorite wine, Pomelo Sauvignon Blanc, just in case...

[UPDATE] Via Daily Kos diarist Scout Finch comes this clarification from WilliamPitt at Democratic Underground... seems that the clock for the 24 business hours that Leopold noted above (which were inserted after the article originally was posted) starts on Monday - so this could be happening on Tuesday or Wednesday. Pitt also notes that there has been no denial coming from the Rove camp.