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No Indictment of Rove in CIA-Leak Case!
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| 6/13/06
| Byron York
Posted on 06/13/2006 3:57:53 AM PDT by The G Man
June 13, 2006, 6:44 a.m.
No Indictment of Rove in CIA-Leak Case Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald makes a decision.
By Byron York
Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has informed top White House adviser Karl Rove that Rove will not face indictment in the CIA-leak investigation, National Review Online has learned. The word came yesterday, when Fitzgerald told Rove lawyer Robert Luskin that he, Fitzgerald, did not plan to seek charges against Rove. This morning, Luskin released a brief statement:
On June 12, 2006, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald formally advised us that he does not anticipate seeking charges against Karl Rove.
In deference to the pending case, we will not make any further public statements about the subject matter of the investigation. We believe that the Special Counsel’s decision should put an end to the baseless speculation about Mr. Rove’s conduct. Rove appeared five times before a grand jury investigating the CIA-leak case; the most recent was in April. Before appearing before the grand jury, Rove was interviewed by FBI agents assigned to the investigation. Fitzgerald’s inquiry, it appears, focused most intensely on the first two sessions — the FBI interview and the first grand-jury testimony.
The key question to be resolved by Fitzgerald was said to be whether to charge Rove in connection with his testimony regarding a brief July 11, 2003, conversation with Time magazine’s Matthew Cooper. In both his interview with the FBI and in his first grand jury appearance, Rove did not tell investigators about the conversation with Cooper. By the time Rove appeared for a second time before the grand jury, Rove had discovered evidence — an internal White House e-mail — showing that he did indeed talk to Cooper. Rove gave the evidence to Fitzgerald, who then questioned him about it at length.
Rove is thought to have testified that he simply did not remember the Cooper conversation until he discovered the e-mail. (Cooper himself described the talk as being about two minutes long and occurring right as Rove was leaving on vacation.) Supporting Rove’s contention was the fact that Rove, apparently, testified from the very beginning that he talked to columnist Robert Novak, which suggested he was not trying to hide his involvement in the case from Fitzgerald.
A decision by Fitzgerald — one way or the other — had been anticipated for months. There was widespread speculation that Rove might face charges for lying to Fitzgerald’s grand jury much like those filed by Fitzgerald last October against Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff. Now, it appears that will not happen. And so far, at least, no one has been charged with violating any of the underlying laws in the case — either the Intelligence Identities Protection Act or the Espionage Act.
Rove’s fate has been the subject of intense discussion among critics of the Bush administration. Perhaps foremost among them is former ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was the CIA employee at the center of the affair. In August 2003, Wilson vowed to pursue Rove vigorously, saying, “At the end of the day it’s of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs.”
— Byron York, NR’s White House correspondent, is the author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President — and Why They’ll Try Even Harder Next Time.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bush; cheney; cialeak; dummiemeltdown; fitzgerald; fitzmas; frogmarched; getbush; getrove; haha; lumpofcoal; mediabias; plame; plamegate; plamenameblamegame; powerghraib; rove; showtrial; wilson; witchhunt; woohoo; zogbyism
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Woo hoo!
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posted on
06/13/2006 3:57:58 AM PDT
by
The G Man
To: The G Man
Excellent news and as we predicted all along.
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posted on
06/13/2006 3:59:05 AM PDT
by
Peach
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: The G Man; PJ-Comix
Same thing reported on Fox.
This should cause a meltdown in DUmmie land today.
Heads up PJ,it should be a good one.
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posted on
06/13/2006 3:59:15 AM PDT
by
carlr
To: The G Man
This is going to leave a mark. A big fat WELT, Jason!
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:00:07 AM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: The G Man
The liberals' dreams of Fitzmas got the door slammed in their face again!
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:00:10 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: carlr
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:00:18 AM PDT
by
The G Man
(The Red States ... the world's only hope for survival.)
To: Howlin; STARWISE; the Real fifi
What will truthout say now? HAHA! Good news for Karl.
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:00:55 AM PDT
by
Laverne
To: The G Man
LOL. In the time it took me to post the announcement from Bill Bennett, no less than four people had beat me to it. DUmmie heads will now explode.
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:01:15 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Democrat Motto: Why not the worst)
To: Bahbah
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:02:04 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(Zarqawi is pining for the fiords.)
To: The G Man
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:03:14 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: The G Man
Paging Jason Leopold...
You were saying about Sealed vs. Sealed?
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:03:26 AM PDT
by
RobFromGa
(The GOP will retain the Senate and House in 2006- Let's Do Something With It!)
To: tiredoflaundry
LOLOL. Oh happy day. Imgine that, a man who did nothing wrong will not have to spend millions to prove it. Don't mess with the Rove machine.
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:03:40 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Democrat Motto: Why not the worst)
To: The G Man
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:05:41 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
To: Bahbah
Somewhere, at 7 AM, hundreds of disdraught liberals are beating their chests and sobbing like someone ran over their dog.
Fat Teddy Kennedy has already pounded down his fifth scotch of the hour. Helen Thomas is trowelling on her morning scowl.
All is sadness in the land of the dead.
To: The G Man
Al-Zarqawi and Rove's indictment ... both killed in the same week. Does it get any better than this? LOL!
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:06:08 AM PDT
by
The G Man
(The Red States ... the world's only hope for survival.)
To: The G Man
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:06:51 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
To: Bahbah; All
If anyone goes DUmpster diving, please wear safety goggles & a slicker. Brain matter stains are a bi*** to get out!
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:07:27 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(Zarqawi is pining for the fiords.)
To: The G Man
Obviously the whole Libby-Fitz thing was a Rovian plot to preclude other investigations.
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:07:46 AM PDT
by
bvw
To: Bahbah
OMG check out the moonbat callers on C Span! hehheheheheheheh
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:08:16 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(Zarqawi is pining for the fiords.)
To: The G Man
This will make the Dummies even more upset than Zarqawi getting blown away!!
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