Reply #26: I hope you are right, but it bothers me that Fitzgerald has subpoenaed

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reporters. The reporters will fight the subpoenas in court which could take a long time, especially if there are appeals by the losing side. If Fitzgerald needs the testimony of one or more reporters to get indictments, I do not see any way of that happening this year. If Fitzgerald does not need the testimony of one or more reporters to get indictments, then why bother issuing them subpoenas?

Interviewing Cheney, and perhaps even Bush, may indicate that others have implicated them in information given to the investigators or the grand jury. But it also could be Fitzgerald's way of establishing that he was thorough and did everything possible to fully investigate the matter.