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Foj
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Username: Foger
Post Number: 1335
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 8:25 pm: | 
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(swapped in refined first paragraph, soon to be reflected on main page, does not change info)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206Y.shtml
Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Friday 12 May 2006
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.
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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.
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John Caffrey
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Username: Jerseyjack
Post Number: 225
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 10:13 pm: |
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Thank you Jesus.
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tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 4909
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 11:47 pm: |
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as an aside, can anyone tell me why Rove is still on the White House payroll, when his only job seems to be working on getting Republicans elected to Congress?
I mean, is this the Nation's business? Should I, a Democrat, be paying tax dollars to fund work for the other side? Are they fresh out of Republican campaign contributions to be funding this kind of work? I remember Republicans pissing all over themselves because Gore made a few fundraising calls from Blair House. Now this? |
Nancy - LibraryLady
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3450
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 13, 2006 - 6:33 pm: |
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051306W.shtml
It now says he WAS served with papers (or at least his lawyer was). |
Foj
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Username: Foger
Post Number: 1348
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 13, 2006 - 7:04 pm: |
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The Rumor mill says - The WH has scheduled a speach for monday, it may be if Rove hasnt been indicted yet, he will be on Monday. The Rumor Mill also has it that Chenney is next.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12774274/site/newsweek/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-CIA-Leak-Case.html |
Foj
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Username: Foger
Post Number: 1350
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 13, 2006 - 9:24 pm: |
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tulip
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Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3511
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 3:26 am: |
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Foj
Not to muddy your excellent research, but here's another item from 3:00 this morning.
Of course, who's surprised?
Were Cheney's "notes in the margin" Novak's "source?"
Prosecutor in CIA Leak Case Says Cheney Referred to Agent Before She Was Identified Publicly
By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer
(AP) 03:05:29 AM (ET), Sunday, May 14, 2006 (WASHINGTON)
In a new court filing, the prosecutor in the CIA leak case revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney made handwritten references to CIA officer Valerie Plame _ albeit not by name _ before her identity was publicly exposed.
The new court filing is the second in little more than a month by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald mentioning Cheney as being closely focused with his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, on Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, who is married to Plame.
With the two court filings, Fitzgerald has pointed to an important role for the vice president in the weeks leading up to the leaking of Plame's identity.
In the latest court filing late Friday, Fitzgerald said he intends to introduce at Libby's trial in January a copy of Wilson's op-ed article in The New York Times "bearing handwritten notations by the vice president." The article was published on July 6, 2003, eight days before Plame's identity was exposed by conservative columnist Bob Novak.
The notations "support the proposition that publication of the Wilson Op Ed acutely focused the attention of the vice president and the defendant _ his chief of staff _ on Mr. Wilson, on the assertions made in the article and on responding to those assertions."
The article containing Cheney's notes "reflects the contemporaneous reaction of the vice president to Mr. Wilson's Op Ed article," the prosecutor said. "This is relevant to establishing some of the facts that were viewed as important by the defendant's immediate superior, including whether Mr. Wilson's wife had 'sent him on a junket,' the filing states.
The reference is to the fact that the CIA sent Wilson on a trip to Africa in 2002 to check out a report that Iraq had made attempts to acquire uranium yellowcake from Niger.
Wilson concluded that it was highly doubtful an agreement to purchase uranium had been made.
The Bush administration used the intelligence on supposed efforts by Iraq to acquire uranium from Africa to bolster its case for going to war.
After the invasion, with the Bush White House under pressure because no weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq, Wilson wrote the op ed piece for The Times. In it, he accused the Bush administration of exaggerating prewar intelligence to exaggerate an Iraqi threat from weapons of mass destruction.
Defending the administration against Wilson's accusations, Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove promoted the idea that Wilson's wife, Plame, had sent him on the trip to Africa. Administration critics have said such a move was an attempt to undercut Wilson's credibility.
The prosecution's court papers also stated that Cheney told Libby around June 12, 2003, that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, a month before her identity was outed.
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3ringale
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Username: Threeringale
Post Number: 197
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 10:40 am: |
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notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3259
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 8:56 pm: |
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I am preparing to do a Snoopy-style dance of joy. And once again, I suppose I will be accused by the wingnuts of being happy that "a patriot's career has been ruined" or some such twaddle. I hope Rove ends up in jail getting regularly beat up for the rest of his life for the things he's done to this country. |
Foj
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Username: Foger
Post Number: 1360
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 12:04 am: |
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Yeah Tulip I saw that one-- kinda makes me wonder if Cheney is next. |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 2205
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 12:06 pm: |
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no news on this? |
mrmaplewood
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Username: Mrmaplewood
Post Number: 347
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 4:33 pm: |
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So what's up with this story? LibraryLady's citation says that Rove had 24 business hours to get his things in order. That would have been Wednesday evening, the 17th. Was the story good or not, or is there a coverup? I hope someone can enlighten me. |
themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2936
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 4:37 pm: |
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http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014903.html
overview I posted elsewhere. |
mrmaplewood
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Username: Mrmaplewood
Post Number: 348
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 4:56 pm: |
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Thanks. I await a resolution. |
Foj
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Username: Foger
Post Number: 1425
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 10:08 pm: |
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More:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/MSNBC_Roves_legal_team_expects_decision_0522.h tml |
The Notorious S.L.K.
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Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1479
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 8:32 pm: |
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Hate to interupt your circle jerk folks, but (my emphasis in bold):
It has been nearly three years since the Valerie Plame kerfuffle began, and the Angry Left has shown enormous discipline in focusing with such intensity on it, even if it is an utterly trivial matter (Plame, by all evidence, not having been a covert agent as the kerfuffle's champions claimed). The result, so far: Scooter Libby is under indictment, though not for "outing" Plame.
The guy the Angry Left really wants is Karl Rove, and earlier this month there was a flurry of excitement when a far-left Web site called Truthout (whose motto, we guess, is "If you want the truth, get out of here") "reported" that Rove had already been indicted. (Disclosure: The author of that article, Jason Leopold, once worked for a wire service owned by Dow Jones & Co., publisher of this Web site.)
On Friday Truthout issued a "partial apology" acknowledging that "we erred in getting too far out in front of the news-cycle"--an amusing new twist on the fake-but-accurate ethos so beloved by members of the "reality-based community." Rove's attorney has a sense of humor about the whole thing, as the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reports:
Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's lawyer, says he spent most of the day on May 12 taking his cat to the veterinarian and having a technician fix his computer at home.
He was stunned, therefore, when journalists started calling to ask about an online report that he had spent half the day at his law office, negotiating with Patrick Fitzgerald--and that the special prosecutor had secretly obtained an indictment of Rove.
The cat's medical tests, Luskin says, found that "the stools were free of harmful parasites, which is more than I can say for this case."
Rove's attorney rocks!  |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 4973
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 9:24 pm: |
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I gotta admit, that's a pretty good line. |
Southerner
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Username: Southerner
Post Number: 1074
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 3:32 pm: |
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I'm not going to say it, but did Travis have something to do with this thread? Put the toast back in the toaster you libs. We are all laughing at you!
What I love is how so many of you libs like to think if the Dems get back in office that you will be fair and honorable. Yet, not one lib has called Foj out on this thread which is a complete lie. Where are you? If you want us to really believe you are so fair why can't you call BS when you see BS? Foj never had much credibility but now there is none. Oh Fitmas, how I miss you! |
John Caffrey
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Username: Jerseyjack
Post Number: 251
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 7:56 pm: |
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O.k. So we're supposed to call Foj on a lie. Is it his fault or the fault of the article. Is he the New York Times that he is supposed to check sources and research information before quoting a blog?
Should we also call out conservative posters for lying about what a wonderful president our Great Decider is? The lies that the conservatives and neo-cons passed on have done more harm than the posting by Foj. For instance, try 3,000 U.S. dead for an unnecessary war. Add to that, over 100,000 civilians
I can go on and on but, my blood pressure.... |
Southerner
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Username: Southerner
Post Number: 1083
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 9:43 pm: |
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Okay John,
It's obvious you can't distinguish between fact and opinion. All your rants about Bush are opinion. When a poster (Foj) comes on this board and says - Rove has been indicted and a press conference will be held to announce it - that is someone stating a fact. Either it is a true fact or a false fact, which some of us outside of New Jersey call a lie. If you can't understand the distinction then I understand why you have to watch your blood pressure.
If I started a thread that tomorrow that Corzine is holding a press conference to announce he is resigning as Governor because a story is about to break that he has a male lover and is indeed gay, and that does not happen then am I stating a truthful fact or a lie?
This was a no brainer and you libs on this board should be ashamed. It only shows you guys are no better than us even though you think you are. I have no problem with gutter politics but I do so enjoy seeing it blow up in your faces. |
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