As I was writing the last entry, I flipped over to Yahoo! News to search for that AP story about George Takei, and guess what headline greeted me? "Cheney Adviser Indicted in CIA Leak Case." Earlier this morning, Al Franken reported on The Al Franken Show that Vice-Presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's office was being boxed up. He said he was serious and that his source was ABC News. He then said that there would be no indictment announcement until 2 PM EST (7 PM GMT).

Apparently, there are indictments now.

The Associated Press reports that Libby was indicted on five counts, including obstruction of justice, perjury, and making a false statement. The indictment says that Libby lied, under oath, about who told him that Valerie Plame was a covert agent with the CIA and when he received the information. Documents obtained by government prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald suggested that Libby learned about Plame's identity from Dick Cheney himself and that Cheney and Libby discussed Plame's identity, as well as ways in which they could exploit that identity, at least a month before Chicago Tribune columnist and SEDHE Villain of the Forever Robert Novak published a column in which he revealed Plame's identity.

And just within the last hour, Libby announced that he was resigning as Cheney's chief of staff.