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Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted

By Jeralyn, Section Valerie Plame Leak Case
Posted on Fri May 12, 2006 at 04:58:51 PM EST
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Breaking....Jason Leopold at Truthout reports Karl Rove has told Bush he will be indicted and that he will resign immediately when the charges are announced.

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.

One more quote, but Jason has lot's more so read the whole thing.

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.

TalkLeft's Karl Rove Indictment contest is still going on, feel free to enter.

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    Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted | 23 comments (23 topical)
    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri May 12, 2006 at 05:26:04 PM EST
    Why would the indictment be filed under seal? What's the tactics/strategy of that?

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri May 12, 2006 at 05:55:23 PM EST
    The net is closing and the trap it narrows, What's it to be Karl, jail or gallows. Fritz I do implore, Let me settle for. A ball and chain and a few broad arrows.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri May 12, 2006 at 06:08:11 PM EST
    It's getting so that every Friday night seems a little more like Christmas Morning!

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#5)
    by Bob In Pacifica on Fri May 12, 2006 at 06:27:54 PM EST
    raulduke, Now let's see a sonnet!

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri May 12, 2006 at 06:34:13 PM EST
    "Springtime, for Karl Rove, and Chimpy-Boy!!" that begins the overture.... thinking of spicy eggplant tonight, maybe a nice long walk, and thanking the good lord these crooks are learning what comes around...dontcha know.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#7)
    by jondee on Fri May 12, 2006 at 06:53:02 PM EST
    If an administration can be personified, this one is starting to look (and sound), like the witch after Dorothy threw the bucket of water on her. What a world, what a world..

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#8)
    by rdandrea on Fri May 12, 2006 at 07:08:20 PM EST
    Sorry to say there's parts of my home in which I am forced to use those same mouse traps. Never once have they caught a mouse in the leg as your picture illustrates. More often, they either break the mouse's neck or crush its skull. Rove should be so lucky.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri May 12, 2006 at 07:12:11 PM EST
    yes, Jondee, i see it.... with flying monkeys that sport an annoying, arrogant, wise-ass smirk. a tin VP who has forsaken his heart for want of more oil; a brainless scarecrow formerly with Fox News; ...and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...he will soon be indicted and hopefully sent off in a low-flying balloon over Tikrit.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#10)
    by orionATL on Fri May 12, 2006 at 07:26:49 PM EST
    george w. bush is too inexperienced in the way a president should be experienced and to passive in his job to understand but getting rid of karl rove would be the best thing that ever happened to the bush presidency. rove has shown that he can fight, but he has also shown that he cannot govern. thus, the whole bush presidency can be summed up this way: he can fight, but he cannot govern. i doubt that bush can change much now. he still does not have sufficient experience in the american democracy to know how to sit down with people and talk things thru. but at least, rove would be gone. and the impulse to aggressively pursue every political slight might be grounded, in the electrical sense.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri May 12, 2006 at 07:45:00 PM EST
    good orion, im sure his impulse to squash all dissent will still feature strongly in the upcoming rounds of this fight, but Rove, et al. are pinned down on the beach in Gulliver-fashion and cannot do much swatting if they wanted to. grounded? lets put a lightning rod up his arse.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#12)
    by desertswine on Fri May 12, 2006 at 08:11:53 PM EST
    You're through Louie. You can dish it out, but ya can't take it anymore.
    - Little Caesar

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#13)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri May 12, 2006 at 09:35:25 PM EST
    Leopold sketchy Hope's buds bloom bloody; righteous Rove's desert is cold

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#15)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat May 13, 2006 at 01:45:07 AM EST
    I've gone to Fitzy's site so many times since he put it up that my brain is shaping itself into the graphics. I want to see the word Rove there. There are some other words I want to see there too, but I can't bring myself to say them. So I just refer to them as Vice Fuhrer Darth Fudd and *.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#16)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat May 13, 2006 at 02:38:47 AM EST
    What have you caught there a mouse or a rat, Poor old Rover he's had a mishap. A trap of his making, Karl is quaking. Show a little pity for this holey chap.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#17)
    by Edger on Sat May 13, 2006 at 03:55:00 AM EST
    Rove To Get Medal Of Honor...

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#18)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat May 13, 2006 at 04:02:44 AM EST
    LOL Probably Rummy is nearer the mark.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#19)
    by Edger on Sat May 13, 2006 at 04:07:46 AM EST
    With he wish? Or with the prediction? ;-)

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#20)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat May 13, 2006 at 08:16:12 AM EST
    Karl Rove/Waylon Smithers - separated at birth? Here is how Smithers is described on the Simpsons home page: "As [Mr.] Burns'[Bush] little lickspittle, Waylon Smithers' duties include squeezing juice for Mr. Burns every morning, tucking Mr. Burns in at night, moistening Mr. Burns' eyeballs, assisting Mr. Burns with chewing and swallowing, removing Mr. Burns' dead skin, lying to Congress and some light typing."

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#21)
    by Repack Rider on Sat May 13, 2006 at 08:39:33 AM EST
    What's that I hear? It's John Phillips Souza, playing "The Frog March.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#22)
    by Edger on Sat May 13, 2006 at 08:51:19 AM EST
    Jeeze, I really feel sorry for Karl... Yawn. Ok, I'm over it now... Who's next?

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#23)
    by jondee on Sat May 13, 2006 at 10:46:01 AM EST
    Orion - You cant talk things through when you cant think things through, and, you cant think things through when your mind(as it were)is already made up. Of course this trait is the very thing that appeals to the true believers; the ones (according to focus groups) who crave security and assurance more than reality.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#24)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat May 13, 2006 at 11:51:02 AM EST
    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, and all the kings horse and all the kings men could not put Humpty together again.

    Re: Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted (none / 0) (#25)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat May 13, 2006 at 04:34:07 PM EST
    It's the source of all liberal's excitement; Karl Rove's finally under indictment! Upside-down by his heels! Now, see how it feels? With his fall, we'll take such delightment.

    Leopold: Rove Told Bush He Will Be Indicted | 23 comments (23 topical)