Just as the news broke Wednesday about Scott McClellan resigning as White
House press secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove shedding some of his
policy duties, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury
hearing evidence in the CIA leak case and introduced additional evidence against
Rove, attorneys and other US officials close to the investigation said.

The grand jury session in federal court in Washington, DC, sources close to the case said, was the first time this year that Fitzgerald told the jurors that he would soon present them with a list of criminal charges he intends to file against Rove in hopes of having the grand jury return a multi-count indictment against Rove.

In an interview Wednesday, Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove remains a "subject" of Fitzgerald's two-year-old probe.

"Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation," Luskin said. In a previous interview, Luskin asserted that Rove would not be indicted by Fitzgerald, but he was unwilling to make that prediction again Wednesday.

"Mr. Fitzgerald hasn't made any decision on the charges and I can't speculate what the outcome will be," Luskin said. "Mr. Rove has cooperated completely with the investigation."

Fitzgerald is said to have introduced more evidence Wednesday alleging Rove lied to FBI investigators and the grand jury when he was questioned about how he found out that Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the CIA and whether he shared that information with the media, attorneys close to the case said.

Fitzgerald told the grand jury that Rove lied to investigators and the prosecutor eight out of the nine times he was questioned about the leak and also tried to cover-up his role in disseminating Plame Wilson's CIA status to at least two reporters.

Additionally, an FBI investigator reread to jurors testimony from other witnesses in the case that purportedly implicates Rove in playing a role in the leak and the campaign to discredit Plame Wilson's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose criticism of the Bush administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence lead to his wife being unmasked as a covert CIA operative.

If you're walking in your front door at 3 o'clock on a Sunday morning and
you have not called your wife to tell her where you have been, you're taking
your marriage into your own hands. But Luis Aponte figured that on this night,
of all nights, it would be all right.

Aponte, a right-handed reliever for Pawtucket, threw four dazzling,
scoreless innings of relief that night -- the seventh through 10th innings --
and some time after 2 a.m., with no end in sight, Pawtucket Manager Joe Morgan
allowed him to go home.

What happened next is part of the lore surrounding that night, the story
told and retold in various versions. As the story goes, Aponte was confronted at
his front door by his wife, Xiomara, who wanted no part of his explanation that
he had been at the ballpark all night.

"Yeah, it's true," Aponte said recently in a telephone interview from
Venezuela, where he is a scout for the Cleveland Indians. "She didn't believe
me. Whenever we had a game, I was usually home by 11:30."

Aponte finally convinced his wife to let him in, promising that the morning
newspaper, with its account of the extra-long game, would prove his story
correct. Of course, the game went too late to make the paper, so there was no
such proof, and Aponte was forced a second time to plead with his wife to
believe him.

It took another entire news cycle -- until the Monday newspaper hit the
doorstep -- for Aponte to convince his wife, once and for all, that he had been
telling the truth.

"She finally believed me," he said. "But it wasn't easy."