Billmon: Dramatic Tension

If this were an episode of Dragnet, at this point they'd play the signature theme: Bom, ba bom bom . . . Bom, ba bom bom, BAAH.

Or if it was Hawaii Five O, Jack Lord would spit out "Book him, Dano!"

But this is reality, so instead we just get this Reuters story:

A New York Times reporter has given investigators notes from a conversation she had with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney weeks earlier than was previously known, suggesting White House involvement started well before the outing of a CIA operative, legal sources said.

Times reporter Judith Miller discovered the notes -- about a June 2003 conversation she had with Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby -- after her testimony before the grand jury last week, the sources said on Friday. She turned the notes over to federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and is expected to meet him again next Tuesday, the sources said.