Rove returns to grand jury
Karl Rove today testified in front of the grand jury investigating the leak of Valerie Plame's identity as an undercover CIA agent. This is his fifth appearance before the grand jury, and his first since being stripped of his role as director of White House policy.
Rove, President Bush's chief political strategist, went before the grand jury to answer questions about discussions his attorney had with Time magazine reporter Viveca Novak, a source close to Rove said earlier. Novak testified last year that she alerted Luskin in early 2004 that Rove had leaked information to her colleague, Matthew Cooper, about CIA operative Valerie Plame. ...
Novak wrote in Time in December that she mentioned to Luskin in early 2004 that the magazine's reporters were buzzing that his client was a source for a story by Cooper about Plame in July 2003. The tip prompted Luskin to set in motion a chain of events that led Rove and his lawyers to search phone logs and other material to determine whether Rove had talked to Cooper. It also eventually prompted Rove to revise statements he made to federal investigators.
Before Rove testified before the grand jury in October 2004, he maintained he did not recall talking to Cooper. Shortly before testifying, Luskin found an e-mail written by Rove to then-deputy national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley in July 2003 in which Rove mentioned the conversation with Cooper. Rove testified that the e-mail jarred his memory.
Luskin has sought to convince Fitzgerald that Rove was guilty of nothing more than a bad memory and was not trying to cover up his role in the Plame case.
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"Luskin has sought to convince Fitzgerald that Rove was guilty of nothing more than a bad memory and was not trying to cover up his role in the Plame case.
Rove a bad memory? Please save me from the irony in this statement. Rove remembers everything and is so entwined in the Plame outing that maybe after his 5th trip to the Grand Jury he?ll finally give Fitz the justification to make ole RoverBoy do the perp walk. Nothing could be better for our country than to have this criminal mastermind under lock and key. Outing an undercover CIA agent is tantamount to treason and if there is a God, Rove will get his.
Posted by: BlueTicker | April 26, 2006 05:50 PM
I am Gay and I love Joe!
Posted by: Drew Pritt | April 26, 2006 06:06 PM
"Rove testified that the e-mail jarred his memory."
Bull$hit!!
Posted by: Anonymous | April 26, 2006 07:13 PM
One of two possibilities:
Fitzpatrick is giving Rove every chance to come clean and save his ass.
Fitz really has him in his sights and is going in for the kill.
Pritt go wipe your butt and find something worthwhile to do.
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Posted by: LWood | April 26, 2006 07:52 PM
I like to think of it as the turd circling the drain.....Rove is bound to be flushed soon and America will be much better off...the world will be much better.
Posted by: Deathbyinches | April 26, 2006 07:55 PM
Can you believe members of the current White House actually outed a CIA agent, apparently knowingly, in order to punish and silence a critic and to carry us to war.
Rove is GW's mind - so, you can bet GW knew.
How is the great 'decider' going to spin and smoke this one?
Posted by: Tag Along! | April 26, 2006 08:54 PM
I don't understand why Rove, the "chief political strategist", should be working out of the White House.
Is his position a line item in the administration's budget? If so, why?
Shouldn't a political party rent their own office space? People working out of the White House should be working for the "people", not creeping around plotting dirty tricks and lies.
Can someone explain this?
--Caput Mortuum.
Posted by: Ecce@ Spiro et Spero. | April 26, 2006 09:06 PM
DBI,
Sobering, dude...
Posted by: rosso | April 26, 2006 09:39 PM
'Isn't that special?
Can you spell S_A_T_A_N?
I mean
R_o_V_E_
Posted by: church lady | April 26, 2006 11:29 PM
You Commies lost the last two elections...Quit complaining , get over it and go to work and start helping us pay these friggin' taxes you like so well.....
Posted by: Anonymous | April 27, 2006 09:26 AM
Sure hope Rove doesn't lie to the Grand Jury about getting a BJ from somebody. That's real wrongdoing.
Posted by: Odell Goodrum | April 27, 2006 01:32 PM
About the possibility of a Roven bj.....is Jeff Gannon/Guckert going to be called to testicle...I mean testify?
Posted by: Deathbyinches | April 27, 2006 01:57 PM
rove has terrible memory
he forgot to tell the truth.
he's cooked
Posted by: upstate ny bill | April 27, 2006 03:20 PM
Did you hear that Rove is entering the 'Clinton look alike' contest? He won in the 'truthfullnes to the Grand Jury' category.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 27, 2006 03:56 PM
Have you seen this before? It's a number guessing game: http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/guessthenumber.html. I guessed 40428, and it got it right! Pretty neat.
Posted by: Merideth Carleton | May 23, 2006 12:14 AM