Patrick Fitzgerald says his team only subpoenaed journalists as a last resort during the investigation of the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name.

Dubya said that during his brief remarks in the wake of the indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his veep's chief of staff, for activities stemming from Plamegate.

Here's some of the other things Dubya was up to this week:

Tim Grieve of Salon's War Room blog on what might be next for Karl Rove, Dubya's most important advisor.

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, resigned after being indicted in connection with Plamegate.

From CNN:

Libby was indicted on one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements, court documents show.

The indictments were not directly related to the actual leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name.

Libby discussed Plame's identity in the summer of 2003 with reporters after her husband, diplomat Joseph Wilson, wrote a highly critical op-ed column in The New York Times that challenged intelligence used as a rationale for the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Descriptions of those conversations by reporters say Wilson discussed Plame's identity, in part, to cast doubt in the reporters' mind about Wilson's account and criticized the CIA, the indictment alleged.

"These are very serious charges," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada. "They suggest a senior White House aide put politics ahead of our national security and the rule of law. This case is bigger than the leak of highly classified information. It is about how the Bush administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to bolster its case for the war in Iraq."

These indictments are the first in a nearly two-year investigation. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has scheduled a 2:15 p.m. ET news conference.

Here's Dubya's statement on the charges.

I went from the outdoors into a slightly steamy indoor environ earlier today.

My glasses fogged.

While I know that on one level, it's perfectly natural, this hasn't happened in a long, long time.

And it has me afraid of what is to come.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- whose nation may well be aspiring to a nuclear weapons program -- isn't backing down from his call for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

The NYT is reporting that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will likely be indicted later today for his role in Plamegate. While Karl Rove, Bush's brain, won't be at this time, the paper says he will remain under investigation and the grand jury hearing the case will have its term extended.

Let's see what the day brings!

Meanwhile, can't tell the Plamegate players without a program? The Globe and Mail's Alan Freeman has a primer.

The NYT's Todd S. Purdum analyzes U.S. President George W. Bush's week from hell -- a week that isn't over.

Flicks I'm debating seeing in the near term: Junebug, The Squid and the Whale, C.R.A.Z.Y. or Grizzly Man.

But given my mediacentric biases, Good Night, and Good Luck -- the story of Edward R. Murrow's battles with Sen. Joe McCarthy --  is looming large as a possibility. Based on that logic, however, so is Capote.

However, Cinematheque is also screening Rebel Without A Cause on Friday.

The trouble with having choices means you have to make decisions. :)