Has Patrick Fitzgerald done guideline calculations?

This morning I am off to Cincinnati to deliver a lecture on “Sentencing After Booker” at the Sixth Circuit Practice Institute. I will thus be off-line until late this afternoon.  And, if the blogosphere and media buzz is to be believed, the biggest of sentencing questions upon my return may concern the possible guideline ranges that would apply if convictions follow a set of high-profile indictments expected from the special prosecutor in Washington DC as early as today. 

Notably, last week, a group called Velvet Revolution (which sounds like the original back-up band for Prince) issued this press release asserting that it “has done an analysis of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and its probable effect on the sentencing of any senior White House official convicted in the Valerie Plame affair.”  According to this analysis, which I would not take to the bank, “if convicted, [these officials] could receive a sentence up to life in federal prison under the United States Sentencing Guidelines.”