Rove Indicted

[kerrygoddess]

Breaking from Truthout: Karl Rove Indicted!!
May 13th, 2006 @ 3:18 pm

Following up on his piece yesterday that an indictment of Karl Rove was imminent, Jason Leopold of TruthOut reports:

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.

During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.

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[oldtime dfl_er]

1. From Jason Leopold's computer to God's ears!

Let us pray! (and I'm an atheist!)

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1401215

[electropop]

2. I'm an atheist too, but I'm beginning to worship Fitz.

Guess I'm not the first member of that cult; I think some of the DU ladies preceeded me. ;-)

[NoodleyAppendage]

3. PLEASE MAKE IT SO. May explain the timing of Bush's Monday night talk.

I was trying to remember when Bush made the announcement that he would be speaking Monday night. Was it mid-day Friday? If so, then it may be that this primetime speech on immigration was planned to disrupt the Rove indicted news cycle.

J

[ellenfl]

6. wouldn't it be great if the 'news' shows ignored bush on monday?! eom

[Popol Vuh]

4. Perjury

"charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators"

Now lets see if the wingnuts remain consistent and blow a fuse over this the way they did over Bill Clinton's supposed perjury.

I am not going to hold my breath....

[Stinky The Clown]

5. The only thing that could be better would be obstruction and conspiracy

... but hey ..... its still early. :)

[Awsi Dooger]

7. The only thing better would be to delay it for months

Why is everyone here so eager for this to happen soon? Talk about incompetent handicapping. We're six months away from November. Let Rove and the White House be paralyzed for months then dump the indictment in late summer or early fall. That's max impact. You don't want it too close to the election or it looks like partisanship on Fitzgerald's part.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I see more indictments on the horizon .......

... think about *that*

[Awsi Dooger]

10. That's not Fitzgerald's history

The big fish is normally the last one indicted after a prolonged investigation. He got Governor Ryan 66th and last in Illinois.

Rove is the biggest name and will have the most public perception impact if indicted, so I want it delayed. In 2004 we exhausted all our prime ammo in the spring and early summer with all the news like Richard Clarke's book and the prison abuse scandal, etc. So Kerry had a lead at about this time, big deal. By the fall, that stuff was long forgotten and mostly irrelevant.

There is no other Official A, to my knowledge, so I'm not counting on Cheney or anyone else with a higher profile than Rove facing indictment.

[Awsi Dooger]

12. Whoops, maybe Cheney is a target

I just noticed this article on Newsweek's site: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12774274/site/newsweek/

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Bingo!

edit to add:

And while Fitzgerald has shown a pattern of starting with small fish filleting them,, then using them as bait for the next, that's a pattern virtually all organized crime prosecutors follow.

Fitz may be methodical and somewhat formulaic, but he isn't locked to that.

[kerrygoddess]

15. I just hope they don't hold it

until after November. Since we found out a year after 04 that they had the goods before the election.

[Skittles]

17. I truly believe Fitz is apolitical in these matters

he does what is right

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. Everybody sing now...

It's beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas!
Everywhere you go.....




There is a God.

[Totally Committed]

11. OMG... I pray that blogger is right!

24 hours to get his affairs in order... so does that mean tomorrow or Monday? Anyone know?

Outstanding!

TC

[kerrygoddess]

14. Follow Up: Could Cheney Be Next?

Could Cheney Be Next?
May 13th, 2006 @ 4:55 pm

TruthOut has reported that Rove has been indicted and has been given 24 hours to get his affairs in order (see earlier post). Now handwritten notes by Dick Cheney on the “margins of a July 6, 2003 New York Times op-ed column by former ambassador Joseph Wilson,” have been included as part of the latest “filing Friday night by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the perjury and obstruction case against ex-Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.”

The notes, Fitzgerald said in his filing, show that Cheney and Libby were “acutely focused” on the Wilson column and on rebutting his criticisms of the White House’s handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence. In the column, which created a firestorm after its publication, Wilson wrote that he had been dispatched by the CIA without pay to Niger in February, 2002 to investigate an intelligence report that Iraq was seeking uranium from the African country for a nuclear bomb. Wilson said he was told Cheney had asked about the intelligence,but the White House subsequently ignored his findings debunking the Niger claims.

In the margins of the op-ed, Cheney jotted out a series of questions that seemed to challenge many of Wilson’s assertions as well as the legitimacy of his CIA sponsored trip to Africa: “Have they done this sort of thing before? Send an Amb. to answer a question? Do we ordinarily send people out pro bono to work for us? Or did his wife send him on a junket?”

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[ginnyinWI]

16. one can dream!

He'd only be getting a small fraction of what he deserves.