Rove Running Out of Answers, Time - t r u t h o u t

[Quixote1818]

Rove Running Out of Answers, Time

By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report
From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120405A.shtml
Sunday 04 December 2005

The attorney representing Karl Rove in the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson has made a desperate attempt to ensure President Bush's deputy chief of staff does not become the subject of a criminal indictment.

In doing so, Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, has turned the tables on the media, who ultimately fought a losing battle to protect Rove - their source - who revealed to some reporters Plame Wilson's identity and CIA status.

Now Luskin has fired back, revealing to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that Viveca Novak - a reporter working for Time magazine who wrote several stories about the Plame case - inadvertently tipped him off last year that her colleague at the magazine would be forced to testify that Rove was his source who told him about Plame Wilson's CIA status, several people close to the case said this week.

The latest twist in the two-year-old investigation has all the elements of a Hollywood thriller. New details in the case seem to emerge on a daily basis. Selective leaks to a small handful of newspapers and cable news stations are aimed at portraying some of the key Bush administration officials involved in the case in a sympathetic light, while casting Fitzgerald as a partisan prosecutor.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00028.htm

[bleever]

1. Fitzgerald plays the accordian. That alone is more complicated than

staying ahead of the sleight of hand and flim-flim acts of these guys.


Here's to accordian players.

[punpirate]

3. Let's hope that Rove gets to be...

... the subject of that old Gary Larson "Far Side" cartoon: "Welcome to Hell--here's your accordion." :)

[madokie]

2. Keep on running kkkarl, they're gonna' get you

you blood sucking piece of shit.

[Peggy Day]

4. Wow! That was very interesting

and I went down to another article at the bottom of that one and found
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00022.htm
that is really long, but another very interesting piece.
What's a person to do?

[marbuc]

5. The last thing you want to do to guy like Fitzgerald

is publically call him a partisan hack. Talk about poking the hornets' nest...

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. As if TIME needs Rove's advice about what to not publish

Kiss my ass, Karl. That email that you "sent" is so ginned up I could start a factory and sell your kind of BS on the street corner for a nickel.

"I didn't take the bait," Rove wrote in the email to Hadley immediately following his conversation with Cooper on July 11, 2003. "Matt Cooper called to give me a heads-up that he's got a welfare reform story coming. When he finished his brief heads-up he immediately launched into Niger. Isn't this damaging? Hasn't the president been hurt? I didn't take the bait, but I said if I were him I wouldn't get Time far out in front on this."

Yeah...This has been Karl, reporting in...and he "sounds" so proud! Phony Balony!

[Quixote1818]

7. I agree 100% about that email

The first time I read it, it was obvious that it was contrived and every word carefully crafted because he knew he might need it later.