Breaking: Karl Rove Indicted!!
by Pamela LeaveyFollowing up on his piece yesterday that an indictment of Karl Rove was imminent, Jason Leopold of TruthOut reports:
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.
During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.
Robert Luskin, Rove’s attorney, did not return a call for comment. Sources said Fitzgerald was in Washington, DC, Friday and met with Luskin for about 15 hours to go over the charges against Rove, which include perjury and lying to investigators about how and when Rove discovered that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative and whether he shared that information with reporters, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said.
Leopold further reports… “An announcement by Fitzgerald is expected to come this week, sources close to the case said. However, the day and time is unknown.” Jeralyn of TalkLeft weighs in here with some thoughts on the indictment.
RELATED POST: Truthout: Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted
Note: There’s more Plamegate news today… I’ll be posting that soon.
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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY !!!!!!
THANK YOU, PATRICK
I will think of you every Mother’s day from now on >
Need to go get enough alcohol to at least imagine I could do cartwheels….
Any ideas on what Bolten and Snow will come up with to spin or distract the attention? I think Helen Thomas should show up at the press conference tomorrow with a violin…
Then there is the terrorist threat level, OBL tapes and Iran’s latest doings.
I am expecting to get a few laughs out of these falling ducks. Mental image; ducks with leg amputations in wheelchairs and prostheses. Inspired by a cartoon many years ago of the frogs leaving the kitchen of a restraurant serving frog legs for the evening special.
Humor, the sanity saving drug.
Well well well–I agree Ginny. Happy Mother’s Day for sure!!!!!!!!!!
Ginny
I imagine the WH will certainly focus on the U.S. troops to our Mexican border message coming from GWB on Monday, so we “stay the course” pray tell!!!!!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO THE DEM DAILY LADIES. “It’s Celebration Time … let’s have a party tonight.”
Conversations with myself, inspired by KJ
Solid evidence that Karl was not qualified for his job:
Due to all the other pressing matters he dealt with, he did not remember Plame and her job.
One of the lead CIA operatives collecting information on Iran’s nuclear weapons program and progress did not have a red flag on her name? Remember the former European CIA head reported a few weeks ago on the BushCO excitement about an Al Qaeda operative questioned before the war? When they found out his information was contradicting them, he went off the radar.
So, if the admin tries to blow up the Iran situation this week (pun thrown in for total clarity) keep talking about how if they hadn’t brought down Plame’s operation, we would know a lot more about what is really going on.
Karl, bend over, head between the knees and kiss your @ss good bye…It will be in the whipping shed for awhile.
Dotti
I got your message – Thanks for calling me with the tip!
No doubt the “immigration” thing Monday is the big diversion. I was wondering what that was all about – makes perfect sense now.
Dotti, Pamela,
You Got It. It might have occured to me by the time I finish my Smirnoff.
HAHAHA Hey James Dobson, you might wanna start praying for Rove, he’s gonna need one of those Lazarus moments for his career!!! ROFLMAO
Ginny
Slurp, slurp – and have one for me, please!
Perhaps tomorrow we could have a gathering and Dem Daily toast to dear ol “turdblossom.” The name gags me, yet it fits. Bye-bye KR, and for the smearing and deceitful actions against John Kerry, may your days be just such fun wearing orange!!!
Pamela
You’re welcome. Sorry I missed you. Look forward to phoning again soon.
Well we’ve certainly been forged through the fires of hell for this.
Hey Ginny!!!! Our optimistic chat was based in reality. Let’s talk soon!
This might be kinda interesting on Monday. If Fitzgerald does come out and indict Rove, won’t shrub look stupid talking about immigration that night?
True, he does look stupid doing most things, but still…
Blue W
It’s very well possible they anticipate this breaking in the MSM on Monday and that’s why they scheduled the immigration talk.
I to had wonder why all of a sudden there is an immigration speech. Well one thing about the bushies you never have to wait long for their true intentions to come to light.
Goss resigns/got fired, Rove being indicted, Libby starts pointing fingers to the big bosses, Cheynne and dubya hitting the road, Laura out on the trail doing a hil re-enactment from 98 elections.
Yeah, it all fits. Still would have been nice to have seen this in May 04 but I guess justice delayed not always justice denied.
Now to make sure nobody gets a pardon. I got to admit I can’t wait to see the little boy out of his league look on stupids face as the rest of his crooked s$@t falls in on him.
They may use immigration to sure up the base, and rattle some more sabers to Iran, but we better be prepared for anything while these twisted a$$holes are still in office. God knows what kind of diversion they will come up with next to take the heat off of them.
As the old folks say (in the Deep South, that is)….”God don’t like UGLY!” Yes, they didn’t fall when we wanted but they fell right on time!
Americans know how to make America – America Again! It will be hard work but we have to vote for checks & balance in ’06…Definitely a vote for change!
And as mentioned earlier, we have to sleep with one eye closed because the fight will be probably be the toughest yet. But on the other hand, it may not be too bad. I can’t believe a couple of my Republican friends have whispered to me that they agree on the need for Democratic control of House and/or Senate. I simply could not believe my ears. They were very much for the current administration in the past but now feel so disappointed. Instead of the “I told ya so”… I said, “Yes, you’re right…we have to have accountability so make sure you vote for Democrats in ’06.” Easy sell! They approached me, they liked my product, saw its credibility and user-friendliness! Best feeling in a long time…finally some common ground.
DAS
There are few people I know, very few, since most I know are liberals, who still have not come to grips with the reality of all of this. Yes, we need checks and balances and a whole lot more. And American’s do know how to make America – America again. It would be nice to sleep a little sounder at night wouldn’t it.