NYT: No Rove Charges Over Testimony on C.I.A. Leak

[spindrifter]

By DAVID JOHNSTON and JIM RUTENBERG
Published: June 14, 2006

The decision by a special prosecutor not to bring charges against Karl Rove in the C.I.A. leak case followed months of intense behind-the-scenes maneuvering between the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, and Mr. Rove's lawyer, lawyers in the case said.
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spokesman for Mr. Rove's legal team, Mark Corallo, said that Mr. Rove had made no deals to cooperate with the prosecution in any way, and that the decision was based purely on Mr. Fitzgerald's findings. A spokesman for Mr. Fitzgerald, Randall Samborn, had no comment.
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That leaves some important unanswered questions. Among them is who in the government first told the columnist Robert D. Novak about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the case in the days before his July 14, 2003, column in which he disclosed the identity of the officer, Valerie Wilson.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/washington/14leak.html?hp&ex=1150257600&en=99280a6365028303&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Tin Man]

1. Well so much for the ambiguities of the initial story

...it's looking more and more like Rove will skate on this.

[spindrifter]

2. Except , as they are pointing out

on some other threads, for the civil suit. That has some possibilities.