Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted

[anoraksia53]

Jason Leopold reports on Truthout.org

Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job when the special counsel publicly announces the charges against him, according to sources.

Details of Rove's discussions with the president and Bolten have spread through the corridors of the White House where low-level staffers and senior officials were trying to determine how the indictment would impact an administration that has been mired in a number of high-profile political scandals for nearly a year, said a half-dozen White House aides and two senior officials who work at the Republican National Committee.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, sources confirmed Rove's indictment is imminent. These individuals requested anonymity saying they were not authorized to speak publicly about Rove's situation. A spokesman in the White House press office said they would not comment on "wildly speculative rumors."

Now if this isn't exciting news I don't know what is. Leopold says this "is sure to be the biggest political scandal it has faced thus far."

more here

[NMDemDist2]

1. woohoo!!!!!! and this will help the Jason's credibility too. K&N n/t

[radfringe]

38. could this be why bush* wants TV time on Monday 5/15?

divert attention from Rove?

bush*'s 'speech' is to be on immigration...live 8pm 5/15

But since Rove testified two weeks ago, the White House has been coordinating a response to what is sure to be the biggest political scandal it has faced thus far: the loss of a key political operative who has been instrumental in shaping White House policy on a wide range of domestic issues

could the "response" be to divert attention by talking about immigration? it won't be the first time the bushies have substituted one issue for another

[truthisfreedom]

2. dupe

[HereSince1628]

5. Big time

[ShortnFiery]

3. God Bless America!

This is a "very good start" at cleaning up all the corruption within our government.
Yes!!! :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot:

[SharonRB]

4. I know you're thrilled about this, but

it's the third thread I've seen so far. Will Pitt's is at the top of Greatest with almost 130 recommendations already. He posted before 7 p.m.

We're all thrilled! I'm so looking forward to next week now.

[anoraksia53]

11. thanks

I looked in the LBN section and didn't see it anywhere but forgot to check GD. Well it's good news anyways. hip hip hooray and have a great weekend.

[bunny planet]

14. Just got home, after being glued to the news the first half of the day I

had to go out late afternoon. Just came home to this.

PInch me please dahling. Is it real????

Is KO still on again at midnight or is the rerun only in the morning now.

I have to watch.

This is such good news.

[bluestateguy]

6. I'm not counting my chickens just yet

nt

[Roland99]

7. BEST. FRIDAY. NEWS. DUMP. EVER!

[catzies]

21. Seconded!

Only one thing can top this.

[mirandapriestly]

8. Am I dreaming? If so, I don't want to ever wake up

WOW, I thought this would never happen. I love Patrick Fitzgerald, I love Patrick Fitzgerald.....

[meisje]

9. Another Fitzmas Miracle

[jarnocan]

10. Been waitng to celebrate since last JULY 4th week end!

Maybe by this JULY 4th we will begin to believe that democracy could be restored in the USA!

[anoraksia53]

13. great snaps

now if we can just get rid of the http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/show.cgi?tpc=1954&post=21862#POST21862">screwed-up voting machines then maybe we really will get our democracy back again......It's kinda cool that these 2 stories are breaking around the same time.

[PurityOfEssence]

27. How right you are.

Sadly, with all the other horrible things wrought by these dicks, the greatest peril to the world is our unverifiable electronic voting.

[savemefromdumbya]

12. Is that what happened at the GrandJury today?

[anoraksia53]

15. I think why today is because

Leopard got confirmation from an inside source........And Rove's legal team refuses to comment.

[populistdriven]

16. LOL ROVE

[WestHoustonDem]

17. It's Fizmas time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. EX-cellent...

An imminent indictment for Rover, Russell Tice going to tell-all to Senate staffers (see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2280938 )... Shit last week for BushCo, Shit this week for BushCo, Shit NEXT week for BushCo, Shit Infinite and Everlasting for BushCo... Hopefully soon, Chucklenuts is going to look back at this week's 29% approval rate and sigh wistfully for the Good Old Days.

The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine.

[bdamomma]

19. this isn't an April's Fools joke or something is it????

this is very good news but it hasn't been officially announced has it?

[noel adamson]

20. Then he will get his own radio show like Ollie North? Be buried with ...

...honor like Nixon? My fear is that these fascist puppets will be made spectacles of as were domestic traitors Nixon, Poindexter, North and others and provincial puppets such as Hitler, Noriega, Pinochet, Marcos, Suharto and on and on but the folks pulling the strings of these puppets will remain entrenched as they have for many decades. They have never had a problem with scape goating their own dupes. These wolves eat their young.



Noelle Bush, Jeb Bush's daughter

[Cobalt Violet]

22. Woo Hoo!

:kick: :party: :toast:

[bklyncowgirl]

23. And just in time for mother's day, how sweet, thanks Pat. nt

[Rex]

24. But the MSM says people are okay with domestic spying!!!!

HELLO! Stop looking at the man behind the curtain!


"I'M THE DECIDER!"

[JackORoses]

25. Eureka!

Now on to the Airing of Grievances
and the Feats of Strength!

[DoYouEverWonder]

26. New transcript from the Libby trial up

http://talkleft.com/LibbyCourtHearingTranscriptMay5.pdf'

Some good juicy Rove stuff in it.

[kestrel91316]

28. Sure, Rove will "resign". He will keep doing the same job, just based

out of his home office rather than the WH. They will have to take him off the "official" payroll, too, but they will just have some thinktank hire him as a "consultant", and he will be doing the exact same job for Bush, just off-site.

[Eugene]

29. WILL resign? If the jig is up, what is Rover still doing there?

Pull his security clearance and have security escort him out the door already.

Why do I think that Karl Rove will continue to advise the Shrub from a prison cell?

[TankLV]

30. Hey, according to bunkerboy, he's STILL INNOCENT!

It's not like he's been CONVICTED of anything!

I can smell this week's spin now!

[Harper_is_Bush]

31. Does this belong in LBN at this point?

With all due respect to Mr. Leopold and the truthout organization, is this officially "news" at this point?

Mr. Pitt posted his topic in GD, perhaps for that reason?

[symbolman]

39. This is NOT LBN

because it's NOTHING but SPECULATION.. it AIN'T NEWS folks.

Sorry to burst anyone's big celebration, but this is the what, THIRD week in a row that Leoplod wrote that rove would be INDICTED NEXT WEEK? Twice here and once on the radio, and still no target letter yet either.

EIGHT republicans IN the White House TOLD HIM the TRUTH?

Please.

Wanting something so bad that everyone suspends disbelief and rationality or any semblence of REALITY is normal for some people, but personally I can't believe how everyone is ready to believe ANYTHING they are told, and by someone who's been WRONG so many times.

It's just nuts.

This isn't directed at YOU HarperisBush, I'm just sitting here shaking my head at the crowds worshipping what looks to me like utter bullshit.

[Tiggeroshii]

32. Is it possible the announcement may not come until after the midterms?

It would really suck, but Fitz's jury isn't set to expire for several more months so he really isn't obligated to get to any point as of yet. Is it possible he might not announce till the last minute?

[deadparrot]

33. Whee!

What an awesome way to start out my summer vacation.

The day it gets handed down (*knocks on wood*), I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. Probably just stare at the TV and make a vague squee-ing sound.

[earth mom]

34. Woo Hoo! It's about time!

:woohoo:

[lovuian]

35. even though OBVIOUSLY PERJURED himself Bush kept him

in the whitehouse when he said the person would be fired...

This is bush's worst mistake and it will haunt him...

[Blackhatjack]

36. Needed: A Rove in Review videoclip

Video snippets, Rove saying he did nothing wrong, Scottie McClellan saying Rove was not involved, Rove's lawyer saying he is not a target, etc. --then clip of announcement by Fitz that Rove has been indicted.

A nice finish would be the clip of Bush lauding Karl Rove as the "architect" of his election victory.

[brentspeak]

37. Not LBN

This is coming from a blog-type site, not from a news source.