Golly. Both Karl Rove and his defense attorney are beating up on Obama because he acceded to Patrick Fitzgerald’s request that he hold off a week so as to give Fitzgerald time to move the investigation forward. But Rove himself refuses to talk about his role in this corruption ring. So do you think Rove is trying to give Obama some unsolicited political advice? Or trying to scuttle the investigation?

Multiple stories–several explicitly sourced to Jesse Jackson Jr’s allies–report that Jesse Jackson has cooperated with Fitz in the past. Here are some data points on JJJ’s cooperation and other involvement.

He apparently told Fitz earlier this year that in 2003, Blago conditioned a position for JJJ’s wife on a $25,000 donation.

Jackson has been in regular contact with the feds and has told the government that in 2003 Blagojevich denied the congressman’s wife

Patrick Fitzgerald answers about five questions about being fired as a USA–one of which is somewhat revealing wrt the Libby and Rezko investigations.