Jason Leopold: Fitzgerald to Seek Indictment of Rove

[Jamnt]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806Y.shtml

Hurry, hurry, hurry!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[amitten]

1. I think I just had a small orgasm.

:blush:


:bounce:

[bunny planet]

5. me too

:evilgrin:

First Oxycontin Boy, now this. Gawd I hope it's true.

[samsingh]

35. no such thing as a small orgasm!

[laylah]

37. OMG...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Jim__]

2. Please be true!

Time to sweat Rove.

[mike_c]

4. that's an ugly image....

Oy.

[MaryRN]

3. Hurry is RIGHT!

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be...speaking words of wisdom, let it be, let it be!!!

[UrbScotty]

6. Honored to give it vote #5 (nt)

[durrrty libby]

7. I withhold premature celebration, but will let out a little …woo n/t

[rodeodance]

20. I am with you--I have been disappointed too often.

[Mr_Spock]

8. Say it's so!!

WOOHOO!!

[Maat]

9. Yahoo! (n/t)

[Sadie5]

10. We can hope can't we

Rove would look so good in orange stripes.

[Maat]

18. Yes, he would (n/t)!

[lostexpectation]

26. No Truthout :)

[ellenfl]

11. please . . . make it so! dubya would

have to fire him then, right? oh, wait, only if he's CONVICTED! dubya has known EVERYTHING all along.

ellen fl

[MuseRider]

12. Just opened a beer

in honor of Mr. Fitzgerald.

Fingers crossed, eyes soon to be. (I am a lousy drinker)

[AndyTiedye]

13. Merry Fitzmas!

:kick::party::bounce:

[lostexpectation]

19. Fitzmas.... its spring!

Its was appropriately funnny back then any new quips? which will highlight how long it took to get here?

[Hekate]

29. How about "Fitzo de Mayo"? Rove would make a nice pinata...

(See post 25 below)
This can be your new extended metaphor -- make of it what you will.

Hekate

[Lena inRI]

14. Sic 'em, Fitz. . .sic 'em!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[drm604]

15. I hope that this isn't like

that supposed target letter...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1051545

On Edit: Added link

[LA lady]

16. fed up

I refuse to get my hopes up again, I'm tired of this

Until I see it on a main streem news show, I am reserving excitement

[drm604]

17. You and me both. n/t

[lanlady]

31. that makes three of us

In the words of Leo Tolstoy, "God sees the truth but is in no hurry to speak it."

[villager]

21. Truthout: Fitzgerald to Seek Indictment of Rove

Fitzgerald to Seek Indictment of Rove
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Friday 28 April 2006

Despite vehement denials by his attorney who said this week that Karl Rove is neither a "target" nor in danger of being indicted in the CIA leak case, the special counsel leading the investigation has already written up charges against Rove, and a grand jury is expected to vote on whether to indict the Deputy White House Chief of Staff sometime next week, sources knowledgeable about the probe said Friday afternoon.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was in Chicago Friday and did not meet with the grand jury. Luskin was informed via a target letter that Fitzgerald is prepared to charge Rove for perjury and lying to investigators during Rove’s appearances before the grand jury in 2004 and in interviews with investigators in 2003 when he was asked how and when he discovered that Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the CIA, and whether he shared that information with the media.

If the grand jury returns an indictment Rove would become the second White House official - and one of the most powerful political operatives in the country - charged in the case since the leak investigation began in the fall of 2003.

In the event that an indictment is handed up by the grand jury it would be filed under seal. A press release would then be issued by Fitzgerald’s press office indicating that the special prosecutor will hold a news conference, likely on a Friday afternoon, sources close to the case said. The media would be given more than 24 hours notice of a press conference, sources added.

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042806Y.shtml

[lostexpectation]

22. wow Leopold guessing too breaking!

[johnfunk]

25. Jason's been correct well ahead of the corporate press...

... so many times it's embarrassing.

Get ready to celebrate Fitzo de Mayo...

[hang a left]

36. Leopold has a lot on the line here

he MUST have someone on the inside. His book was just released Friday. I don't think he would write this unless his source was down tight.

[midnight]

23. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you..........

Mr. Fitzgerald. We are all thinking and hoping you are well rested and feed. Take care.

[bullimiami]

24. how much lying, and lying, and lying, and lying is fitz going to have to

get through before he can file the actual criminal charges in the case?

he can probably get perjury and obstruction charges against virtually the whole bush cabal.

[barb162]

27. This I will enjoy

[Hekate]

30. Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again...

:bounce: :party: :bounce: :party: :bounce: :party: :bounce: :party:

Let us sing a song of cheer again, Happy days are here again...

Hekate

[HuffleClaw]

28. i say bush attacks iran BEFORE that happens

or there is a HUGE terror scare. something, hell, ANYTHING to avoid the press.

[sofa king]

32. The Terra-meter hasn't gone off lately....

Looks like next Thursday is a good time to bet on the terrorism futures market. Why? Because of this:

_____________________

December 21, 2003: Blanket terra warning for the holidays.

December 30, 2003: http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/DOJ%2C_CIA_call_for_Plame_investigation%2C_investigation_starts#December_30">AG John Ashcroft recuses himself from the Plame investigation.

_____________________

May 20, 2004: Grand jury issues subpoenas to Tim Russert and Matt Cooper.

May 25, 2004: Sources: Major terror attack possible this summer

_____________________

August 1, 2004: Homeland Security issues spurious threat warning based on three-year old disinformation.

August 2, 2004: Grand jury issues subpoenas to Time magazine regarding Matthew Cooper articles.

_____________________

July 6, 2005: Judith Miller jailed for contempt of court in Plame case

July 7, 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System">London bombings, along with sympathetic DHS warning here in the U.S.

_____________________

October 6, 2005: Murray Waas breaks story that Karl Rove will testify for a fourth time before grand jury.

October 6, 2005: http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/10/06/NY%2DSubway1006.html">New York's Mayor Bloomberg issues spurious terror warning.

_____________________

It would appear as if the terrorists have considerable interest in preventing the American public from concentrating on the Plame Affair. Now, why would that be so?

[Peace Patriot]

33. There is no question that SOMETHING is happening re Rove and Treason-

gate. Rove testified for 3 1/2 hours the other day, in his 5th grand jury appearance. It's very likely (given what we know of his testimony and related events) that he's about to get indicted on perjury and obstruction, and the wait may mean that Fitzgerald is giving him time to think about it. When Fitz indicted Scooter Libby on perjury and obstruction, he indicated that he was determined to get to the bottom of it, and it's not likely that Libby and Rove decided to out a CIA agent and an entire CIA WMD counter-proliferation network on their own. It is also preposterous that White House officials as high as Libby (next up the rung, Cheney) and Rove (next up the rung, Bush) would bandy a covert CIA agent's name around, or allow it to be bandied around, without being extremely careful about her covert status, checking on it, and stopping those discussions. The cover story (or one of them) has been that "everybody knew" that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent, that is, "everybody" in DC, but both Libby and Rove have been caught in lies connected to this cover story. (It appears that they were deliberately "seeding" the info of Plame's identity with reporters to get a "bounce back" from the reporters--reporters telling THEM that she was CIA, so they could say this later--that they HEARD it, not that they DISCLOSED it.) I think Rove is guilty of participating in the conspiracy to out Plame/Brewster-Jennings, but that he was doing it on orders of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and/or Rice. I also think Libby (Cheney's aide) tried to set Rove up--leave him holding the bag on this--make it seem like Rove was the chief operative and "decider" (as Mr. Bush puts it). Rove avoided that fate. But he is still thick in it.

I would be happier if Rove started squealing--rather than if he is indicted on perjury and obstruction. I'm willing to wait. I think Fitzgerald has him by the short hairs.

One possible outcome (of recent Rove testimony and GJ activity) could be Rove fingering Libby on the main crime (outing Plame/BJ)--but I don't think Fitzgerald would be satisfied with a lateral finger-pointing (Libby and Rove being roughly equal in the power structure of this criminal gang), for the very reason that it is very unlikely that Libby would have committed this crime on his own, without direct orders from at least Cheney. If this is what happens--if Libby is as high as Fitzgerald can get--and Libby gets indicted and goes to trial for the outing, his defense will be that Cheney has the power to declassify any info he decides to, at any time--even covert CIA agents' names, even if it endangers them--and, if that doesn't fly, that Bush has the power to declassify any info he decides to, at any time, and (Libby will say) Cheney told him that Bush told him that Bush had declassified Plame's status. In other words, because Libby works for Cheney, and is sitting there in Cheney's office, with this fuzzed over, smeared over, declassification process behind Cheney, anything Libby says to reporters, even if it is classified, is automatically DE-classified, if Cheney backs him up. (The groundwork for this defense has already been laid by Libby's lawyers.*) And if you think this is a lot of malarkey, you are right--but the ultimate "deciders" on whether it is or not will probably be the Bush-packed Supreme Court.

*(But there is another law--a very specific federal law--that protects covert CIA agents from such disclosures, a law meant to protect our agents. It's not a classification law; it's a law that protects their covert status, and forbids outing them, because outing them puts theirs and other peoples' lives in danger (anyone they had contact with in a foreign country, for instance). The key to convicting someone of breaking this law has to do with whether or not they KNEW the agent was covert--and that is why there has been such a song and dance, from Libby and Rove, about whether they knew, when they knew, who told whom, and so forth--and probably why they tried to "seed" the info about Plame all around town, to make it seem like general knowledge. Again, the two top aides in the White House taking this cavalier attitude toward Plame and other covert U.S. agents/contacts around the world is astonishing, on its face. That they did it deliberately violates this law, and may also be treasonous, since Bush has stated "we are a nation at war." It would amusing to see these Bush junta criminals try to get out of a charge of treason by now claiming that we are not at war, and never were, because Congress, which has the sole power to declare war under the Constitution, never did so.)

[goforit]

34. What tickles me even more is that Fitz is questioning Woodward too!!!

Nothing like getting a dozen stooges with one stone!!!

The quiet patience of Fitz.....God Bless his soul!!!