After Delay, Fitzgerald Apparently Preparing To Indict Rove

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is expected to ask a grand jury investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame to indict Senior White House Advisor Karl Rove for making false statements to the FBI and Justice Department investigators in October 2003, lawyers close to the case told the website RAWSTORY.

Rove failed to tell investigators at the time that he had spoken about Plame to Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and conservative columnist Robert Novak, both of whom later cooperated in the case. Novak outed Plame in a July 14, 2003 column.

Neither Rove nor his attorney Robert Luskin has explained Rove’s misstatements to Fitzgerald’s satisfaction, those familiar with the case said.

Eleventh-hour testimony from Time reporter Viveca Novak — who Luskin fingered as a crucial witness in keeping his client out of court — does not appear to have been helpful in dodging an indictment, they added.

At the time, Luskin cited his conversations with Novak -- a friend of Luskin who is not related to the conservative columnist Robert Novak -- in persuading Fitzgerald not to indict Rove in late October, when the prosecutor indicted Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff.

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Fitzgerald briefed the second grand jury investigating the outing last week for more than three hours. During that time, he brought them up to speed on the latest developments involving Rove and at least one other White House official, the sources said. The attorneys refused to identify the second person.

Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent who trained with Plame and has aggressively criticized the Bush Administration via his blog, has suggested that National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley also is facing indictment.

An email Rove sent to Hadley in early July 2003 -- when he was Deputy National Security Advisor -- later proved Rove had spoken to Cooper about Plame, a fact that Rove omitted when he was first interviewed by the FBI.

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This item first appeared at Journalists Against Bush's B.S.

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for a Merry Fitzmas!

I thought it meant Tom Delay -- as in Fitz was going to try to indict Rove after he had indicted Delay.

My mind was racing trying to figure out how Delay was involved in all of this too.

Then I realized that it was just a poorly worded headline.

Delay is a word.

DeLay is the guy in the House.

'Cause those are soooo different...

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I think we are all just so used to seeing the words "Delay" and "Indict" in the same sentance we natrually assume that's what it is about.

:)

An indictment of Rove would change the political landscape considerably.

Pleeez make it a happy Fitzmas!

I love the smell of a NeoCon getting burned any time of day.

But, hell, there are so many Republicans in trouble with the law, it's understandable that it's hard to keep up with. ;)

On Edit: Whoops... seems I read it wrong - thinking Tom Delay, not "delay" as in "put off." But, I guess I wasn't the only one! :7

this shouldn't be confusing

Personally Decorate YOUR FITZMAS TREE - an Interactive Animation, my Best Yet!

MERRY FITZMAS! I wanted a Fitzmas Tree ever since I heard the term invented on the Web, and NOW by god I have one, and you can too..

I have labored long and hard on this Interactive Animation (Flash - you may need the most recent flash plugin on your system - at least 6 I think, here's the Macromedia link for player/plugins: http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/#players ) - WHERE YOU can actually DECORATE YOUR OWN FITZMAS TREE, by dragging and dropping Ornaments and dropping them on the FITZMAS TREE - if an Ornament sticks to your "hand" it may be because of the slimy people encased within, just give it another mouse click on the tree to shake it off

There are two Flashes that interact with each other - one is the Fitzmas Tree itself, with a box FULL of decorations, the decorations being the Subjects of Indictments, Investigations, etc - something your Right Wing brother-in-law might be interested in knowing, lots of fun facts

If you click (click all over the page, lots of surprises on it) on the TITLE's of the Flashes you can go between the Tree itself, and another Flash that will load up with all the Decorations and an explanation of WHO they are, and WHAT they did.. for folks that don't know much about the Plame Outing they can get educated on the Ornaments and then click on back to the Tree and Decorate the Hell out of it

Here's two links, the first goes to the Fitzmas Tree itself, but like I said, you can click to the other Flash for more info, or a pal can get more info and Trim the Tree after.. Try this one First:

http://www.tbtmradio.com/flash/merryfitzmas.swf

or you can check out the Ornaments (but maybe miss some surprises where the Presents are) at This Link:

http://www.tbtmradio.com/flash/merryfitzmasornaments.swf

In case you're wondering what that building is in the background, it's the HAGUE, I thought it rather appropriate - and the guys in ORANGE, well, I think you'll recognize them

So ENJOY if you will, and do me a favor, keep this KICKED Please - a labor of love, but no sleep for about Three days either.. Pass it around to anyone you think might be interested, and Let me Know what YOU think of this work if you would..

And don't forget to open the presents under the FITZMAS TREE, I wrapped them special just for YOU..