…for what it’s worth (and what it’s worth is about a nickel if you want inside information). My guess is: It has amounted to nothing.

Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald is tying up loose ends, one of which is Judith Miller, toward whom he is hostile for reasons having nothing to do with Valerie Plame (she busted up his investigation of an Islamist terror front called the Holy Land Foundation by calling its officials for comment just before he was about to stage a midnight raid on the place). My guess: He has already determined there was no crime in the naming of Plame. Remember: He could have indicted people all along the way if he’d had the goods on them and probably would have done so in order to secure cooperation. (Remember that Ken Starr indicted, among other people, the McDougalls and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker well before he got involved in Monica-gate.)

If there was no underlying crime in the outing of her name, the idea that there was a conspiracy to hide the fact of her naming (which is what the Washington Post is hinting at today) is a major, major stretch. Not an impossible stretch, but a major stretch, and a pretty unfair one too by any reckoning. Total runaway prosecutor stuff, and I trust people like Andy McCarthy who say Fitzgerald is a fair man.

So, unless somebody perjured himself explicitly before his grand jury — and I submit to you it’s highly doubtful that Scooter Libby committed perjury before a grand jury because he’s one of Washington’s toughest lawyers and would know how dangerous it would be to do so — Fitzgerald is done. He will end the grand jury next month, will not indict anyone for anything, will not provide a long written report on the matter, and will be accused of being a White House shill by the Kos-maniacs.

Look, I could be wrong. But given everything we know and the fact that there have been no indictments by now and that Judith Miller is the last witness for Fitzgerald’s grand jury, I think this is the most plausible scenario for the Plamegate endgame.