MSNBC, David Schuster: Rover indulged in "ROLLING DISCLOSURE"

Mr. Fitzgerald Goes To Town



Sounds like a very short chat. AP:
Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than an hour Thursday morning at a law firm representing Viveca Novak, a Time magazine reporter whose testimony was being sought in the CIA leak case.

Fitzgerald and an associate emerged from the office of attorney Hank Schuelke at 11:30 a.m. EDT, declined to answer questions and rode away in a taxi cab. A short time later, a court stenographer left the building.

An hour later, Schuelke escorted Novak from the building and helped her flag a taxi. He declined comment when asked if she had provided sworn testimony in Fitzgerald’s investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA agent’s identity.
I've heard that Vivac tried like hell to keep from having to testify under oath, but Fitzgerald was having none of it.

Meanwhile on MSNBC, David Schuster says that Rover indulged in something they are referring to as "rolling disclosure" -- each time he went before the grand jury he remembered a little bit more. Schuster also seems to indicate that Vivac's conversation with Luskin happened before Rove's first February, 2004 appearance before the grand jury, and that in this testimony Rove said the subject of Plame had come up briefly. This contradicts earlier reports by the WaPo that in his first GJ appearance "Rove testified that he did not recall talking to Cooper about Plame."

Boy we can only hope Team Rove presume the Special Counsel is the credulous bumpkin they clearly take the media and the public for.
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or any other forms of lying or evading the truth that a prosecutor or investigator is trained to pick up on?

lying to me. :eyes:

I love it. Luskin's now ass-deep in this crap as Fitzy makes 'em all sweat more and more. Those who have nothing to fear should be watching this show like the rest of us. Those who do don't know which way things are going. Methinks in his efforts to "muddle the waters", Luskin and Rove have messed up their own cases. All Fitz is doing is connecting the disconections...how recollections never were jogged, just ignored...which means obstruction charges...the ones I've felt Fitz has been wanting to lower on Rove for quite some time. The deal now is with all these latest shennanigans...from Woodward's attempt to cover Rove's ass to his Vivak crap, it's just more obstruction and greater fuel to Fitz's fire.

To date we still don't know who Fitzgerald has talked to or how much of this puzzle he has unraveled. That's the joy of this investigation. One day, at his choosing...not Luskins or Roves or Chenney's...Fitz will lay down his cards and I suspect the dirt that will fly will blow this scandal into hyperdrive. Larry O'Donnell's on Countdown is pretty much spelling it out...as usual.

I admit I've not been keeping up with the news and I'm confused over Vivak.

Luskin pulled a last minute game on Fitzgerald...throwing Vivecka Novak's name out there as another set of "loose lips" that knew about Plame and that it was through a conversation that she had with Luskin that she just happened to say she had "heard things" and this somehow Luskin took to Rove who somehow found some old notes and "jogged" his memory that he DID talk to Cooper about Plame and that led to that last minute Rove tapping-dancing session in front of the grand jury. It appears that the manuever by Luskin was good enough to force Fitzgerald to withhold from indicting Rove as this introduced a level of doubt...enough to prevent Fitzgerald from indicting.

Now, if Ms. Novak's testimony doesn't jive with Mr. Luskin's and/or Rove's or others Fitzgerald has talked to...known and unknown, this could open up a whole new can of worms for Rove and Luskin. Luskin's doing what a sharp laywer does...puts every roadblock in the way of the prosecution...forcing it to rethink its case constantly. We're seeing quite a chess game playing out here...and again, my chips are with Fitzgerald as he's got cards he's yet played and the power of the law on his side. The bottom line is that if Novak's testimony appears to contradict or not back up Rove's...Fitzgerald could see this tactic as another form of obstruction and not only hit Rove with charges, but Luskin as well.

Ha! He's rolled so much shit into a ball that it is now gonna roll right back over him.

Mr. Fitzgerald seems more than willing to give it a push.