Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted

[Bill_Henebrie]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206Y.shtml


Friday 12 May 2006

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."

Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, did not return a call for comment Friday.

Rove's announcement to President Bush and Bolten comes more than a month after he alerted the new chief of staff to a meeting his attorney had with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in which Fitzgerald told Luskin that his case against Rove would soon be coming to a close and that he was leaning toward charging Rove with perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators, according to sources close to the investigation.

A few weeks after he spoke with Fitzgerald, Luskin arranged for Rove to return to the grand jury for a fifth time to testify in hopes of fending off an indictment related to Rove's role in the CIA leak, sources said.

More at link...

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FROM THE COPYRIGHTED NEWS SOURCE PER DU RULES.

[stepnw1f]

1. dupe.... on home Page Already (nt)

[stop the bleeding]

2. 453 responses and 270+ nominations

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1172571&mesg_id=1172571

[rainy]

3. Welcome to DU. This article is already posted on the

front page of DU. Best look for things before posting so not to repeat. You'll get the hang of things. It just takes a few posts to do so.

[Droopy]

4. This is a dupe

But you need to trim that down to four paragraphs. That's the way they tell us to do it here when posting an article. Four paragraphs and a link unless things have changed recently.

BTW, welcome to DU.

[fearthem]

THANKS for posting it under "Latest," which is the first place I go to!

Would have missed it otherwise ; )

[fearthem]

5. THANKS for posting it under "Latest," which is the first place I go to!

Would have missed it otherwise ; )

[LaPera]

6. IF, IF, IF, Bush ACCEPTS Rove's resignation BEFORE the November elections

it will be interesting.

However, Rove has a spanking new multi-million dollar home in DC so I'm sure he'll be directing the usual republican election smearing, distorting & lying just as if he was doing it from his office at the White House.

Rove is their boy, who will do the dirty work for the republicans and the vindictive Rove enjoys every second doing it...Such as making sure electronic voting machines are ready to be manipulated in the certain precincts around the country where they are necessary to assure the republican majority in congress!!!

[BuyingThyme]

7. Welcome to DU, Bill! Don't worry about the poopers.

You'll fit in just fine.

[democrank]

8. Thanks Bill and

welcome to DU.

[LaPera]

9. I agree, tell them to shut the fuck up, there's "dupes" all the time...

here on DU and many people don't want their opinions lost in some 455 post response HOLE...Thanks for posting...

Ignore the clowns, they are everywhere pontificating their bullshit here on DU, as if they really think they are somebody around here.

Truly, WELCOME to DU! It is a GAS!!!!

:bounce: :smoke: :bounce:

[Jeanette in FL]

10. I agree as well

I remember when I was still on dial up and I would see one of those threads with 100's of post and would have to bypass it because it would take days to load.

So this is good for someone who has been away and is just checking in to see what is going on and can be brought up to speed.

Dupes happen all the time and sometimes we can delete ourselves very quickly. No biggie for me.

Oh and welcome to DU, Bill.

[LaPera]

11. KICK!

:kick: