Yet the threat of a secret indictment clearly nagged at him.
Both of the men NATO sought to arrest last week had been named in secret indictments.
Truthout has stood by that report, which said Mr. Rove was under a secret indictment.
They wanted her to act quickly and to issue public, not secret, indictments, so that they would have a deterrent impact.
What has not been made public is a much longer list of secret indictments.
The prosecutor at the war crimes tribunal has revealed that a so-far secret indictment exists against a former head of the Bosnian Serb security services.
It is not known if there are more clergymen among the tribunal's secret indictments.
Later, the media organisation received declassified diplomatic cables that confirm a secret indictment exists.
They have a secret indictment handed down just yesterday from the grand jury.
His extradition had already been requested in connection with a secret indictment in the kidnapping of an American in India in 1994.