Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted

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Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

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.

That meeting was followed almost immediately by an announcement by
newly-appointed White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten of changes in
the responsibilities of some White House officials, including Rove, who
was stripped of his policy duties and would no longer hold the title of
deputy White House chief of staff.

The White House said Rove would focus on the November elections and
his change in status in no way reflected his fifth appearance before
the grand jury or the possibility of an indictment.

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.

Late Thursday afternoon and early Friday morning, several White
House officials were bracing for the possibility that Fitzgerald would
call a news conference and announce a Rove indictment today following
the prosecutor's meeting with the grand jury this morning. However,
sources close to the probe said that is unlikely to happen, despite the
fact that Fitzgerald has already presented the grand jury with a list
of charges against Rove. If an indictment is returned by the grand
jury, it will be filed under seal.

Rove is said to have told Bolten that he will be charged with
perjury regarding when he was asked how and when he discovered that
covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the agency, and
whether he discussed her job with reporters.

Rove testified that he first found out about Plame Wilson from
reading a newspaper report in July 2003 and only after the story was
published did he share damaging information about her CIA status with
other reporters.

However, evidence has surfaced during the course of the
two-year-old investigation that shows Rove spoke with at least two
reporters about Plame Wilson prior to the publication of the column.

The explanation Rove provided to the grand jury - that he was
dealing with more urgent White House matters and therefore forgot - has
not convinced Fitzgerald that Rove has been entirely truthful in his
testimony.

Sources close to the case said there is a strong chance Rove will
also face an additional charge of obstruction of justice, adding that
Fitzgerald has been working meticulously over the past few months to
build an obstruction case against Rove because it "carries more weight"
in a jury trial and is considered a more serious crime.

Some White House staffers said it's the uncertainty of Rove's
status in the leak case that has made it difficult for the
administration's domestic policy agenda and the announcement of an
indictment and Rove's subsequent resignation, while serious, would
allow the administration to move forward on a wide range of issues.

"We need to start fresh and we can't do that with the uncertainty
of Karl's case hanging over our heads," said one White House aide.
"There's no doubt that it will be front page news if and when (an
indictment) happens. But eventually it will become old news quickly.
The key issue here is that the president or Mr. Bolten respond to the
charges immediately, make a statement and then move on to other
important policy issues and keep that as the main focus going forward."

Jason Leopold spent two years covering California's electricity
crisis as Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires. Jason has
spent the last year cultivating sources close to the CIA leak
investigation, and is a regular contributor to t r u t h o u t. He is
the author of the new book NEWS JUNKIE. Visit www.newsjunkiebook.com
for a preview.

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dcfnobody · medicine forum Guru Wannabe Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 122

Hey Looner,

Hey, this guy is another looner. Look at your wonderful source, you
idiot. He's like you, only a legend in his own deranged mind:

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | April 27, 2006 | Jason Leopold, William Rivers Pitt,
DUmmies, and PJ-Comix

A strange thing has happened over the course of the past year. Whenever
I search the name of either Karl Rove or Patrick Fitzgerald in Google
News, another name keeps popping up, JASON LEOPOLD, who appears as the
reporter of some amazing (but wildly inaccurate) insider information on
the CIA "Leak" case. Often Jason Leopold appears as the SOLE source of
information which NO OTHER reporter has been able to unearth. So who is
this intrepid reporter that is constantly on top of the CIA "Leak" case
("Leak" in quotations since it is NOT a crime to reveal the name of a
non-covert CIA worker, thus no "Leak")? Well, according to HOWARD KURTZ
of the Washington Post, Jason Leopold is a former cocaine addict who
has admitted to lying, cheating and backstabbing. In addition, Leopold
has served time for grand larceny, has attempted suicide, and has
battled mental illness his whole life. WHEW! But wait, there's MORE!
Leopold's credibility is so shot through with holes that the publisher,
Rowland & Littlefield, cancelled his book, "Off the Record," just days
before it was due to go to press. But wait...there's STILL MORE!
Leopold was also fired by the Los Angeles Times for threatening to rip
a reporter's head off. Leopold already shaky credibility suffered even
more when Salon retracted its story authored by Jason Leopold about a
Bush admininstration official saying that it couldn't (surprise,
surprise) authenticate the piece.

So now that Jason Leopold has been thoroughly discredited, where can he
turn to in order to get his fiction published? To Pied Piper Pitt's
Truthout.Org site of course. For the past few months, Truthout has
become the headquarters for Jason Leopold's Fitzmas fiction tales. The
latest piece of Leopold fiction was proudly promoted by Pied Piper Pitt
in this DUmmie THREAD titled, "Jason Leopold: Target Letter Drives Rove
Back to Grand Jury (full story)." In this exclusive Truthout "scoop,"
Jason Leopold proclaimed that "I confirmed with sources close to the
investigation that Rove did in fact receive a target letter," and that
"My sources maintain that Rove is a target and that Luskin understood
that." Only one "little" problem here. Neither Karl Rove nor his
lawyer, Luskin, received target letters as was revealed soon after this
Pitt post. OOOPS! As a result, Leopold had to issue a lame RETRACTION
in which he says the story still COULD be true because Luskin wouldn't
return his phone call.

So let us now watch Pied Piper Pitt's credibility sink even lower on
the Good Ship Leopold in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your
humble correspondent, thinking that Jason Leopold could be up for the
Pulitzer according to current MSM standards, is in the [brackets]:

Target Letter Drives Rove Back to Grand Jury
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Issue
Wednesday 26 April 2006

[Ooooh! Oooooh! Another Jason Leopold exclusive scoop hot off the pages
of Truthout!]

Karl Rove's appearance before a grand jury in the CIA leak case
Wednesday comes on the heels of a "target letter" sent to his attorney
recently by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, signaling that the
Deputy White House Chief of Staff may face imminent indictment, sources
that are knowledgeable about the probe said Wednesday.

It's unclear when Fitzgerald sent the target letter to Rove's attorney,
Robert Luskin. Sources close to the two-year-old leak investigation
said when Rove's attorney received the letter Rove volunteered to
appear before the grand jury for an unprecedented fifth time to explain
why he did not previously disclose conversations he had with the media
about covert CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband, former
Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who criticized the Bush administration's use
of pre-war Iraq intelligence.

A federal grand jury target letter is sent to a person in a criminal
investigation who is likely to be indicted. A "target" of a grand jury
investigation is a person who a prosecutor has substantial evidence to
link to a crime.

Last week, Rove was stripped of some of his policy duties in a White
House shakeup orchestrated by incoming Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
The White House insisted that Rove was not demoted, but insiders said
the executive branch is bracing for a possible indictment against Rove.

Don't believe it - another Jason miss. Sorry, but given this guy's
level of credibility, I wouldn't give this story the time of day.

dcfnobody · medicine forum Guru Wannabe Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 122

Why the manic posting today? Trying to bury the truth again?

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