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| monkey_man |
Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Friday 12 May 2006
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206Y.shtml
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."
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| lotsajizz |
awwwwww....too bad, Karl
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| telecaster |
Libs.....
If they weren't so sad they would be funny
Posting things from left wing/socialist websites as fact
Then on top of that they have to doctor photos
And the losers can't figure out why the country flushes them down the toilet every time. Time after time
But I guess when you don't control the White House, Congress, Senate, majority of Governships and statehouses
and the Supreme Court you have to doctor photos
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| glencar |
Good catch, Tele. More BS wishes. Can we stop with the politics for a bit? The Euros must be bored silly by it all. |
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| telecaster |
quote:
glencar wrote:
Good catch, Tele. More BS wishes. Can we stop with the politics for a bit? The Euros must be bored silly by it all.
I agree
But the lefties & joey keep posting this crap as fact |
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| glencar |
LOL It's Joey! No hanging matter... |
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| pdog |
I heard Bush's joke about catching that big fish was a lie too. The large Pirch or Perch or whatever it's called, he said it weighed 7 lbs or so, the largest are only about 4lbs. I'm devistated that this president would lie like this. Impeach! |
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| corgi37 |
Some one pass Bush a fiddle. I think Rome is burning. |
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| Strange_Stray_Cat |
quote:
glencar wrote:
Good catch, Tele. More BS wishes. Can we stop with the politics for a bit? The Euros must be bored silly by it all.
Ow we are certainly not bored... |
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| BONOISLOVE |
Stop it!! Leave my friends alone!!!! |
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| Strange_Stray_Cat |
Article from Dutch newspaper:
NEW YORK - the old rocker Neil Young has itself the anger of the American conservatieven... ... on the neck obtained because he on its new album living with war uses the attack on president Bush. The most controversial song is Let's Impeach the president in which calls Young to turn off the president. It sounds as padvinderslied at the campfire, but the text is traditional protestsong. Bush must gone because of the leugens concerning Saddam, exaction and a growing budget deficit. , he engaged already the offenders, ' ' weet Young, and ` he lets citizens spy on in their own houses. Bush our religion ', ` the country divided ' and ` has taken hostage ` the zwarten neglected. The cd, since buy, has yesterday touched an open nerve at partisans of Bush obviously, because they react ongemeen incensed to the album. , he is not even American. He is Canadian, ' ' thus the conservative magazine The National Review. , he can not even vote. He already forty years in America and has to never the effort has been taken American become, ' ' the booklet continues. , this invader from the country of the elanden tells us that we our president must turn off! As the resistance workers Mexico is not that our tries out to prescribe how we must change the law, then is it, however, the straw press from the bush of Ontario which offend our Head of State.' ' Young say that for its part he to the head stand of an American family and even if a lot of years pay much tax. The striking large attention to the new songs is against the background of the free fall of the popularity of president Bush interpretable. Less than one on the three Americans (29 per cent) the republican supports still. In the last quarter century only the democrat Jimmy casing sunk still deeper (28 per cent). Also the support in the supporters of Bush erodes. For this reason concern that grows they will lose their small majority - fifteen seats in the house and five in the senate - at the elections in November at the conservatieven in the congress. Democrats have studies into the policy of Bush and consultants have been already announced, as soon as they reconquer the majority in the congress. An amputation procedure has not been excluded. |
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| BONOISLOVE |
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Strange_Stray_Cat wrote:
Article from Dutch newspaper:
NEW YORK - the old rocker Neil Young
Anyway, I'm not sure of anything else to add, except that Neil Young is a very pretty man, even though he's OLD. |
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| FPM C10 |
quote:
glencar wrote:
Good catch, Tele. More BS wishes. Can we stop with the politics for a bit? The Euros must be bored silly by it all.
Oh YES, Telly - GOOD CATCH! No one would have realized that photo was a fake if you hadn't been on your toes.
Another fascinating tidbit - Bill Clinton owns a copy of Adobe Photoshop! Coincidence? I think not.
Are you fellas going to get funnier and funnier as your boy slides into the toilet? Hope so! |
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| Joey |
quote:
glencar wrote:
LOL It's Joey! No hanging matter...
Blue ........................
I swear that Perks and yourself shall NOT be greeted !
I Friggin SWEAR it !!!! |
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| sirmoonie |
As much as I am disgusted with howe inept and perverted this George Walker Bush III administration is, and despite how much fun it would be to continue to laugh at the Bush Geeks who posture hopelessly, I hope this goes no farther than Scooter Libby. If its Rove and Cheney involved in exposing a CIA agent for political gain, this pathetic administration turns criminal, which in spite of everything, is something I have yet considered them to be. Not good. Not good for any real Americans.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195385,00.html |
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| corgi37 |
What the hell is a "real American?"?
Is this situation good for fake Americans then?
What about false Americans?
Pseudo Americans? |
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| chevysales |
quote:
FPM C10 wrote:
Oh YES, Telly - GOOD CATCH! No one would have realized that photo was a fake if you hadn't been on your toes.
Another fascinating tidbit - Bill Clinton owns a copy of Adobe Photoshop! Coincidence? I think not.
Are you fellas going to get funnier and funnier as your boy slides into the toilet? Hope so!
actually bill clinton has a cracked copy of photoshop cs2 and when caught by the warez police he was forced to go out and buy an acedemic version of it using chelsea's student id card.
further proof that most democrats only obey the law themselves when they have too... ie when the public is watching. and i hear ted kennedy is his owns son's connection for his ambien (yea rite) oxycontin habit.
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
corgi37 wrote:
What the hell is a "real American?"?
Is this situation good for fake Americans then?
What about false Americans?
Pseudo Americans?
Corgisimo(!), real Americans are the ones who know The Score and like to drink.
This situation is bad for fake, false, poncey, and pseudo Americans. See, e.g., Arnold "pfannkuchenhaus" Schwarzenegger. See, e.g., Bush Geeks. See, e.g., the rider of the smack down pony. Eeegee? Skeechie, skeechie? |
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| Joey |
" I hope this goes no farther than Scooter Libby. If its Rove and Cheney involved in exposing a CIA agent for political gain, this pathetic administration turns criminal, which in spite of everything, is something I have yet considered them to be. "
Mooniekins ...........
You can bet your Sweet Bippy that Cheney is involved in exposing that CIA agent --- He is nothing but a " Big Bowl of Bad !!!! " ( See : Spiro Agnew 1969 - 1973 )
Developing ...........................
Shiver ..........
Jackycakes |
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| rasputin56 |
Should be a good week. A very good week.
And Agnew was a pussy compared to this whacko. What's that strange clicking noise on my phone?
[Edited by rasputin56] |
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| corgi37 |
Our Prime Minister and his whore wife had lunch with Cheney and his chick the other day. They are very buddy-buddy. |
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| jb |
And yet we(dems) will still lose!!! We are hapless!!! The idea that they will vote for us b/c od them, is appalling. People like consistent leaders, and love him or hate him, this Prez is consitent. We are a spinless party adrift w/out an oar...I predict no significant gain in either house and Hilary will bring out tens of millions of the hardcore conservatives , who despitr not liking Mccain, will vote for him over the percieved anti-christ Clintons. |
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
jb wrote:
And yet we(dems) will still lose!!! We are hapless!!! The idea that they will vote for us b/c od them, is appalling. People like consistent leaders, and love him or hate him, this Prez is consitent. We are a spinless party adrift w/out an oar...I predict no significant gain in either house and Hilary will bring out tens of millions of the hardcore conservatives , who despitr not liking Mccain, will vote for him over the percieved anti-christ Clintons.
You have weird perceptions. I see nothing consistent about George Walker Bush III except his inherent stupidity. That friggin' dope is all over the map on damn near every issue - even the ones near and dear to the heart of Big Religion. He can't form a consistent policy on anything, unless you call being for like good stuff and against like bad stuff a consistent policy. |
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
corgi37 wrote:
Our Prime Minister and his whore wife had lunch with Cheney and his chick the other day. They are very buddy-buddy.
The get liquored up and go kangaroo hunting? Cheney be like BLAM, BLAM! Cheney like to blast up. Uh huh, get all BLAM, BLAM all the time in somebody's face. |
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| jb |
Bush's niece is a hot model..very do-able!!!
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| gimmekeef |
quote:
jb wrote:
Bush's niece is a hot model..very do-able!!!
[Edited by jb]
jb..so there is a good "bush" in the family then?...Hope she didnt inherit Barb's looks! |
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