Last Minute Interviews

According to Reuters, investigators are running around to interview neigbors:

Marc Lefkowitz, who lives across the street from Plame, told Reuters two FBI agents asked him on Monday if he knew about Plame's CIA work before her identity was leaked to the press in 2003. Lefkowitz said he told them: "I didn't know."

The writer then speculates:

Two lawyers involved in the case said such questioning could indicated that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald intended to charge administration officials for the leak itself, in addition to possible charges for easier-to-prove crimes like perjury and obstruction of justice.

This seems odd. If I was investigating whether the cover of Plame was blown I would have asked her neighbors on the first day of the investigation if they knew she was CIA. Why wait until the last day.... How can you be sure they remember from two years ago after so much partisan press about it. It seems that if the prosecutor had a strong enough case to indict he would have known by now without having to do some last minute questioning of the neighbors (unless of course he was hoping a neighbor would "obstruct" so he could prosecute the neighbor).

One possibility is that the prosecutor doesn't want any "press surprises" from the nieghbors, so he is getting them on record before the indictments come out. If that is the case then the prosecutor isn't as "straight" as we have been led to believe...

UPDATE: CBS News reports that indictments, if any, will come tomorrow. Except that the major indictment will be for a Mr. X, a lower level official outside the whitehouse other than Rove or Libby. The speculation is limitless. This story is a reporters dream. Imagine if the Kennedy assassination occurred today.