TIME: Rove's Contingency Plan
The President's advisor may step asside if indicted in the Valerie 'Flame', I mean 'Plame' case.

"A “source close to Rove” claims the reason for the resignation is to allow him “to fight aggressively ‘any bull– charges.’”

Cheney may be target of probe
"Scooter wouldn't be freelancing on this without Cheney's knowledge," a source told the Daily News. "It was probably some off-the-cuff thing: 'This guy [Wilson] could be a problem.'"
The News reported in July that Libby was "totally obsessed with Wilson."
Whether that obsession amounts to criminal misconduct will be decided by Fitzgerald - but if Libby is indicted or implicated in wrongdoing, Cheney's reputation will suffer as well. "