The Sealed v Sealed Mystery

I know some of you have given up on Jason Leopold and t r u t h o u t after Leopold had published that Rove's indictment was imminent a few weeks back. I haven't given up on them completely though. We'll know the real truth when we get it. The fact that so many of us wanted Rove to be frog-marched at the time needs to be put aside for now until we really know what happened in the Plame case.

Leopold has a article about an unusual occurance:

Four weeks ago, during the time when we reported that White House political adviser Karl Rove was indicted for crimes related to his role in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, the grand jury empanelled in the case returned an indictment that was filed under seal in US District Court for the District of Columbia under the curious heading of Sealed vs. Sealed.

As of Friday afternoon that indictment, returned by the grand jury the week of May 10th, remains under seal - more than a month after it was handed up by the grand jury.

The case number is "06 cr 128." On the federal court's electronic database, "06 cr 128" is listed along with a succinct summary: "No further information is available."

We have not seen the contents of the indictment "06 cr 128". But the fact that this indictment was returned by the grand jury hearing evidence in the CIA leak case on a day that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury raised a number of questions about the identity of the defendant named in the indictment, whether it relates to the leak case, and why it has been under seal for a month under the heading Sealed vs. Sealed.

You can read the rest. Leopold states that it is possible this sealed case may relate to the Abramoff scandal as well.

Marc Ash of the site has more:

The title of the indictment, Sealed vs. Sealed, is unusual. Typically a sealed federal indictment will be titled, "US vs. Sealed."

I'm not a lawyer but this just gets curiouser and curiouser.