The Washington Post has an editorial warning people to relax and not "rush to judgment" in the Valerie Plame affair.

If so, they should be punished. Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald may have evidence that they did; there is a still a great deal that is not publicly known. But so far, in the accounts given by reporters about their conversations with administration officials, no such crime has been described. What has been depicted is an administration effort to refute the allegations of a critic (some of which did in fact prove to be untrue) and to undermine his credibility, including by suggesting that nepotism rather than qualifications led to his selection. If such conversations are deemed a crime, journalism and the public will be the losers.

People in Washington seem so sure that indictments are going to come down and rumors even spread throughout the city yesterday that Cheney would be indicted and would have to resign and that Bush would appoint Condi Rice to replace him. (Sounds like something Dick Morris would have dreamt up.) Whoa, people.

And, if as Victoria Toensing writes, he issues no indictments and no report because such a report would be a violation of Grand Jury secrecy, we'll just be left with this cloud of rumor and innuendo and no real picture of what he found out. Blech.