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Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators

By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t Report
Saturday 13 May 2006



Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.

During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 business hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.


www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/rove.htm

Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, did not return a call for comment. Sources said Fitzgerald was in Washington, DC, Friday and met with Luskin for about 15 hours to go over the charges against Rove, which include perjury and lying to investigators about how and when Rove discovered that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative and whether he shared that information with reporters, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said.

It was still unknown Saturday whether Fitzgerald charged Rove with a more serious obstruction of justice charge. Sources close to the case said Friday that it appeared very likely that an obstruction charge against Rove would be included with charges of perjury and lying to investigators.


www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushdui1.html
www.dudehisattva.com/Bush%20Administration%20Frogwalk.htm

An announcement by Fitzgerald is expected to come this week, sources close to the case said. However, the day and time is unknown. Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the special prosecutor was unavailable for comment. In the past, Samborn said he could not comment on the case.

The grand jury hearing evidence in the Plame Wilson case met Friday on other matters while Fitzgerald spent the entire day at Luskin's office. The meeting was a closely guarded secret and seems to have taken place without the knowledge of the media.

As TruthOut reported Friday evening, 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.
www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206Y.shtml



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 Friday night, sources confirmed Rove's indictment was 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."


http://armando.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/28/162519/846

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.

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 and resulted in the indictment.


It's Hammer Slammer Time!
www.cafepress.com/thewhitehouse/866007

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 that 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."

www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_051306W.shtml

See also:


From the Desk of Patrick J. Fitzgerald
Fighting for Truth, Justice and the American Way
http://patrickjfitzgerald.blogspot.com

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teak said...
Better get your soap on a rope, Karl.

Anonymous said...
Are you kidding me? Rove will volunteer to be shower attendant. Jason Leopold defended his truthout.com story in an interview with Ian Masters on KPFK. Bottom line: when Friday night negotiations broke down in the offices of Patton-Boggs, Fitz handed one of Rove’s lawyers a sealed indictment and said “…[Rove] has 24 business hors to get his affairs in order.” Leopold says that “…an announcement could come anytime after Monday night.” Leopold claims to have more than one source for this info and that these sources know that they’ll be outed if they’ve burned him.

From Johnny Reb
When Rove makes it to prison, here is a little advice to his fellow inmates. When showering near Rove and you drop your soap DO NOT BEND OVER TO PICK IT UP.

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Patrick J. Fitzgerald
Office of Special Counsel
US Dept of Justice
www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/

October 28, 2005 Indictment: US v Libby
www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/documents/libby_indictment_28102005.pdf

Chicago Office:

Dirksen Federal Building
219 South Dearborn Street, Fifth Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60604

Washington Office:

Bond Federal Building
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Please address all correspondence to the Washington Office

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Dear Mr. President,

It is my considered judgment that you should now resign. I expect in your lonely embattled position this would seem to you as an act of disloyalty from one you have supported and helped in so many ways. My own view is that I would now ill serve a President whose massive accomplishments I will always respect and whose family I love, if I did not now give you my judgment. Until this moment resignation has been no answer at all, but given the impact of the latest development, and it will be a lasting one, I now firmly feel resignation is best for the country, best for this President. I believe this view is held by most Republican leaders across the country. This letter is much more difficult because of the gratitude I will always have for you. If you do leave office history will properly record your achievements with a lasting respect.
—George H. W. Bush Sr., Sir Knight of the British Empire, Chairman, Republican National Committee

President Tricky Dick Nixon, Mafia attorney at law, resigned the next day, rather than face arrest for assassination of President John F Kennedy Sr and treasonous coup d'etat on November 22, 1963, according to Nixon's convicted felon chief of staff H.R. Haldeman in his autobiography, "The Ends of Power".

VIDEO DOWNLOAD: Video confession by Nixon re his extortion of FBI and CIA of Watergate arrests exposing "The Whole Bay of Pigs Thing"
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neal.mccarthy/jfkvideos.htm

VIDEO DOWNLOAD: Music Video JFKs
JFK by Oliver Stone with Zapruder Film, photo comparison of Nixon's CIA Watergate burglers with "tramps" arrested in Dealy Plaza, PAX TV Assassination of JFK Jr, Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead by XTC
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/6742.php
www.september911surprise.com

VIDEO DOWNLOAD: Nixon Resigns
White House pool feed of Nixon before and during his resignation broadcast on August 8, 1974. This is not Nixon's entire speech. The speech is cutoff after Nixon announces that Vice President Ford will replace him (about 4 minutes into speech). He appears jovial and carefree beforehand, giving no signs of the gravity of his announcement. He is also somewhat off-the-wall. This piece ws quoted in the final pages of All the President's Men, by Bob Woodward (Jewish US Navy Intelligence liason officer between the Pentagon Joint chiefs and Nixon's White House chief of staff General Al Haig) and Bernstein.
www.archive.org/details/nixons_resignation

"There's a report out tonight that 24-years ago I was apprehended in Kennebunkport, Maine, for a DUI. That's an accurate story. I'm not proud of that. I oftentimes said that years ago I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much and I did on that night. I was pulled over. I admitted to the policeman that I had been drinking. I paid a fine. And I regret that it happened. But it did. I've learned my lesson."
—Governor George Bush Jr, CNN Larry King Live, November 2, 2000
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/02/lkl.00.html

Kennbunkport Maine police report of Bush arrest, handcuffing, incarceration in prison, and conviction for criminal misdemeanor for drunk driving
www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushdui1.html

Military records of George Bush Jr's felony conviction for disobeying a direct order to take a drug test, AWOL and desertion of Vietnam Wars, sentenced to revokation of his military pilot license and sentenced to six months extra duty
www.awolbush.com

Dick Cheney's 2 arrests, incarcerations and convictions for drunk driving
www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cheney_doc.html

Dick Cheney's White House chief of staff arrested - Homosexual pedophile Jew Scooter Libby indicted for obstruction of justice, perjury and conspiracy for following Jew Cheney's illegal orders to name CIA covert agents who stopped Bush from planting Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
www.piratenews.org/weblog.html

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
—President-Elect Governor George W. Bush Jr, convicted drunk driver, convicted drug addict (expunged by diversion, parole and restitution), arrested for theft, arrested for vandalism, demoted from pilot to mail clerk in Texas Air National Guard for disobeying direct order for drug test AWOL, sentenced six months extra duty for desertion of Vietnam Wars, sued for rape, sued under RICO Act for perping the terrorists attacks on 9/11/2001, CNN News Transcript, December 18, 2000
www.thoughtcrimenews.com/bushrape.htm
www.911forthetruth.com
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html


www.piratenews.org

Doonesbury Comic Censored for Quoting President Bush's Disgusting Homosexual Nickname for Traitor Karl Rover. Bush Facing Arrest for Treason as Turd Blossom Takes the Fall
www.geocities.com/piratenewstv/doonesbury-censored.html

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Looks like bush hasn't washed his hands in awhile. Not exactly brilliant photoshop work, but mildly amusing.

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CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK
Aired July 27, 2005

COSTELLO: You Googled the term and you got a picture. Was it a picture of Karl Rove?

MYERS: No. A Turd Blossom is actually -- I guess another name would be cowpie, for those of us growing up in the Midwest.

COSTELLO: Oh.

MYERS: But this is a legitimate nickname that President Bush gave him over something in 2001, and now they're bringing it up again. And this is like, oh, this is not even new news.

But, so, do you agree with the decision by some newspapers not to run the Doonesbury cartoon strip? And so, therefore, now that they didn't, now it's on CNN.

COSTELLO: I know.

www.geocities.com/piratenewstv/doonesbury-censored.html


"When George Bush moved into the White House in January 2001, the man who got him there, Karl Rove, chose Hillary Clinton's office for himself. It was a telling choice. The partnership between the president and the man he calls Boy Genius (or on bad days Turd Blossom) is the political marriage at the heart of the Bush administration. Now, with the Democrats and the Washington press
corps scenting blood over the CIA leak scandal, the big question for Mr Bush is whether that marriage will have to be sacrificed in the interests of his re-election. The partnership had its origins in 1973, when the junior political flunky was working for George Bush the elder, who was chairman of the Republican National Committee. The 22 year-old Mr Rove was given the job of meeting the chairman's son and handing him the keys to the family. A starstruck Mr Rove has
since told the New Yorker he could remember what the young Bush was wearing that day: cowboy boots, jeans and a pilot's jacket. 'He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have,' Mr Rove marvelled. On this occasion, however, it is the FBI that is looking for the fingerprints, and for the first time King Karl looks vulnerable."
-Julian Borger, London Guardian, "Boy Genius or Turd Blossom?" October 2, 2003
www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1053901,00.html

turd blossom
1. (noun) In west Texas, a desert wild flower that grows up out of a meadow muffin.
2. (proper noun) One of G.W. Bush's nicknames for Karl Rove.
3. (slang) any positive consequence (beauty) that comes from something unwholesome(shit)
1. "Ma, that there's the purtiest turd blossom I've seen in miles."
2. "We'll get Turd Blossom to out Wilson's wife (Valerie Plame) to Novak."
3. "Wow, buddy, that presentation you gave to the board was quite a turd blossom."
—UrbanDictionary.com

meadow muffin.
1. The one necessary ingredient for a friendly game of barnyard frisbee.
Homer and Lum found a couple of fine meadow muffins, and threw them at each other.
2. (n.) feces deposited onto the ground by bovine animals. Also known as "cow flop". In a dried state, meadow muffins become "cow chips" which can be used as fuel or in throwing contests.
"I was hunting quail but slipped
-UrbanDictionary.com

barnyard Frisbee
A game played in a barnyard or a cow pasture, wherein participants hurl dessicated cow pies. The goal can be to attain the greatest distance, or to hit a specified target.
Compare with barnyard golf.
-Linda Mae always beats Homer Bob when thhey play barnyard Frisbee.

turd-burglar.
noun (Offensive and derogatory) a male homosexual. Also, turd-packer, turd-trapper, turd-surfer.
-Macquarie Dictionary

turd packer.
(n.): A pedicator. (Slang.)
-Aaraon's Dictionary of Gay Terms

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Hey PirateNews, there's somebody on the "Angry Liberal Guy" thread that claims that Bush is God and that your momma's a heathen. His name is TheRightStuff. Go enlighten him!

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MSNBC’s Shuster: ‘I Am Convinced Karl Rove Will Be Indicted’

Tonight on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC reporter David Shuster said he was “convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted.” He made three points to support his position:

1. Rove wouldn’t have testified for the 5th time unless he believed it was the only way he could avoid indictment. At this point, according to Shuster, the burden is on Rove to stop it.

2. It’s been 13 days since Rove testified and he has not heard that he is clear. Lawyers Shuster talked to say that if Rove would have gotten himself out of the jam, he would have heard by now.

3. Rove is referred to in the Libby indictment as “Official A.” According to Schuster, every time Fitzgerald has named somebody as “Official A” that person has been indicted.

Shuster also says Rove’s lawyers expect a decision from Fitzgerald within the next two weeks.

Transcript:

OLBERMANN: What are you gathering on this? Is the decision by Mr. Fitzgerald coming soon? Will it be an indictment?

SHUSTER: Well, Karl Rove’s legal team has told me they expect a decision will come some time in the next two weeks. I am convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted and there are a couple of reasons why. First of all, you don’t put somebody in front of a grand jury at the end of an investigation or for the fifth time as Karl Rove testified a week and a half ago unless you feel that’s your only chance of avoiding indictment. So, in other words, the burden starts with Karl Rove to stop the charges. Secondly, it’s now been 13 days since Rove testified. After testifying for three and a half hours, prosecutors refused to give him any indication that he was clear. He has not gotten any indication since then and the lawyers that I have spoken with outside of this case say that if Rove had gotten himself out of the jam, he would have heard something by now. And then the third issue is one we have talked about before, and that is in the Scooter Libby indictment Karl Rove was identified as “Official A.” It’s the term that prosecutors use when they try to get around restrictions on naming somebody in an indictment. We have locked through the records of Patrick Fitzgerald from when he was prosecuting cases in New York and from when he has been U.S. attorney in Chicago. And in every single investigation, whenever Fitzgerald has identified as somebody as “Official A,” that person eventually gets indicted themselves in every single investigation. Will Karl Rove defy history in this particular case? I suppose anything is possible when you are dealing with a White House official. But the lawyers that I have been speaking with who know this stuff say don’t bet on Karl Rove getting out of this.

www.thinkprogress.org/2006/05/08/shuster-convinced/

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Thursday, October 27, 2005 06:02

Just like Xmas when the parents won't wake up! (Thank you Stephanie Miller for that image ) Many many threads ago I started posting about this. At the time I cited a CIA officer who called into a small public radio station, his voice shaking with anger and fear, to say that this all originated from the Old Executive Office Building. You just can't fake that kind of raw emotion. You really can't. From those few sentences I perceived a deep animosity between the WH and the CIA, and realized that if the CIA knew who outed Plame they were actually in a position to do something about it and probably would.

So I spent hours figuring out who tennanted that building (and it ain't easy to find on-line) and narrowed it down to Cheney, Rice, and their respective staff. And having heard how Cheney haunted the CIA building looking for the WMD info that I assumed it was he.

I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that Fitzgerald is hoping to get Rove or Libby turn on the Big Guy (not Bush, he ain't the Big Guy he's the sock puppet). Wouldn't be surprised either if Bush pardons his indicted staff, just like his daddy did.

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Khyron wrote:

Hey PirateNews, there's somebody on the "Angry Liberal Guy" thread that claims that Bush is God and that your momma's a heathen. His name is TheRightStuff. Go enlighten him!

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Can't argue with the heathen part. After my dad was invited to Bohemian Grove, my mom started collecting 100s of owl idols. But she got rid of them after watching Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove by Alex Jones. She grew up in the Episcopal Church of England, where the British Govt's Archbishop of Canterbury is a Druid pagan.
www.infowars.com/bg1.html

And Jr Bush really is the god of Log Cabin Republicans.

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MSNBC’s Shuster: ‘I Am Convinced Karl Rove Will Be Indicted’

Tonight on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC reporter David Shuster said he was “convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted.” He made three points to support his position:

1. Rove wouldn’t have testified for the 5th time unless he believed it was the only way he could avoid indictment. At this point, according to Shuster, the burden is on Rove to stop it.

2. It’s been 13 days since Rove testified and he has not heard that he is clear. Lawyers Shuster talked to say that if Rove would have gotten himself out of the jam, he would have heard by now.

3. Rove is referred to in the Libby indictment as “Official A.” According to Schuster, every time Fitzgerald has named somebody as “Official A” that person has been indicted.

Shuster also says Rove’s lawyers expect a decision from Fitzgerald within the next two weeks.

Transcript:

OLBERMANN: What are you gathering on this? Is the decision by Mr. Fitzgerald coming soon? Will it be an indictment?

SHUSTER: Well, Karl Rove’s legal team has told me they expect a decision will come some time in the next two weeks. I am convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted and there are a couple of reasons why. First of all, you don’t put somebody in front of a grand jury at the end of an investigation or for the fifth time as Karl Rove testified a week and a half ago unless you feel that’s your only chance of avoiding indictment. So, in other words, the burden starts with Karl Rove to stop the charges. Secondly, it’s now been 13 days since Rove testified. After testifying for three and a half hours, prosecutors refused to give him any indication that he was clear. He has not gotten any indication since then and the lawyers that I have spoken with outside of this case say that if Rove had gotten himself out of the jam, he would have heard something by now. And then the third issue is one we have talked about before, and that is in the Scooter Libby indictment Karl Rove was identified as “Official A.” It’s the term that prosecutors use when they try to get around restrictions on naming somebody in an indictment. We have locked through the records of Patrick Fitzgerald from when he was prosecuting cases in New York and from when he has been U.S. attorney in Chicago. And in every single investigation, whenever Fitzgerald has identified as somebody as “Official A,” that person eventually gets indicted themselves in every single investigation. Will Karl Rove defy history in this particular case? I suppose anything is possible when you are dealing with a White House official. But the lawyers that I have been speaking with who know this stuff say don’t bet on Karl Rove getting out of this.

www.thinkprogress.org/2006/05/08/shuster-convinced/

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I wonder if Junior will nuke Iran on Monday to divert attention?


"You can't stop the signal!"
-Mr Universe, Pirate TV

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Who gets fired for this fabricated story? If it was CBS, Dan Rather would be shown the door. Who's the Dan Rather that made up this fairy tale story?


By saying that Rove has been indicted, that is an actionable screw up that Rove can come back and sue this moron from 'Truthout dot com '. aka WithOUTtruth dot com. It's called liable, and don't be surprised if Rove goes after this idiot before too long.


If I wanted to read The Onion, I'd have gone to their web page. Please, don't clutter FFF.NET w/ such crap again. Thank you.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Mainstream Press Fails To Confirm Charges Against Rove

Professor Glynn Wilson
Locust Fork News
May 15, 2006

The best we can tell from monitoring the news wires and cable news on Monday, no mainstream news outlet is ready to confirm yet that President George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, is about to be indicted, as reported by the left-leaning non-profit Web site Truthout on Saturday.

The Associated Press moved a story a few minutes ago basically giving Rove a blowjob by talking about his smile. Do they know something we don't? If so, we would love to see it reported in full.

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Rove Said Unfazed by Chance of Charges

By Deb Riechmann
AP News
May 15, 2006

President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, arrives at the White House every day wearing a jovial smile that masks his boss' political troubles and his own legal woes.

Rove, the man Bush dubbed "the architect" of his re-election, has the arduous task of halting Bush's popularity spiral and keeping Democrats from capturing the House or Senate in November elections - while under the threat of indictment in the CIA leak case.

Rove was asked about his legal problems Monday after a speech on the economy at a conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. He ducked. "Nice try," Rove told the questioner.

If the grand jury weren't in the news, it would be hard to tell that Rove, a deputy White House chief of staff, is waiting to find out if he'll be indicted.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060515/D8HKCLK00.html

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The Bush Administration Is Spying On Reporters

It now comes to our attention via a reader in Seattle that we are not the only news blog reporting that the Bush administration's spying involves eavesdropping on reporters.

According to an ABC News blog called The Blotter, a senior federal law enforcement official tipped reporters off to the fact that the federal government was tracking the phone numbers reporters call in an effort to root out confidential sources in its leak investigations.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_source_.html

"It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told Brian Ross and Richard Esposito in an in-person conversation.

Josh Marshall at the Talking Points Memo is also talking about it.

www.locustfork.net/blog/

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Veteran CBS News Anchor Dan Rather speaks out on BBC Newsnight tonight

16.05.02
BBC NEWS

The veteran CBS News anchor and reporter Dan Rather has for the first time attacked the climate of patriotism in the United States, saying it's stopping journalists asking tough questions. In an exclusive interview with BBC TWO's Newsnight tonight (Thursday 16 May), he admits he has held back from taking the Bush administration to task over the so-called war on terror.

Rather says: "It is an obscene comparison - you know I am not sure I like it - but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tyres around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tyre of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions, and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so often. And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism."

Rather admits self-censorship: "What we are talking about here - whether one wants to recognise it or not, or call it by its proper name or not - is a form of self-censorship. It starts with a feeling of patriotism within oneself. It carries through with a certain knowledge that the country as a whole - and for all the right reasons - felt and continues to feel this surge of patriotism within themselves. And one finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but you know what? This is not exactly the right time to ask it'."

He tells Newsnight: "I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend... In a constitutional republic, based on the principles of democracy such as ours, you simply cannot sustain warfare without the people at large understanding why we fight, how we fight, and have a sense of accountability to the very top."

He declares himself a patriot, but for him the essence of being American is being able to bring the government to account: "It's unpatriotic not to stand up, look them in the eye, and ask the questions they don't want to hear - they being those who have the responsibility, the ultimate responsibility in a society such as ours, of sending our sons and daughters, our husbands, wives, our blood, to face death, to take death. Now, in my position my view is not to ask the tough questions in this kind of environment is the height of lack of patriotism."

Rather is also stinging about the lack of access and information the Bush administration is giving news journalists over the war: "There has never been an American war, small or large, in which access has been so limited as this one.

"Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted. And I am sorry to say that up to and including the moment of this interview, that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by the American people. And the current administration revels in that, they relish that, and they take refuge in that.

www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/05_may/16/dan_rat
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"Impeachment is essential to the integrity of constitutional government. It is the most urgent duty of the American people. We have the power to cause impeachment, if we have the will. Do your part now! Participate and contribute to the Constitutional Crusade to Impeach George Bush."
—US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, May 3, 2006
www.ImpeachBush.org

"The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
—Constitution for the united States of America, Article II, Section 4, Articles of Impeachment of George Walker Bush
www.impeachbush.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr012=lpt0n9n441.app7b&pag
e=NewsArticle&id=5054&security=1&news_iv_ctrl=1061

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. I don't know where Usama is, and I really don't don't care. The Constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper!"
—Georgie Bush Jr, convicted felon


www.september911surprise.com

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Rove Indictment Report Denied

By Staff Reporter of the Sun
May 15, 2006

A spokesman for a top White House aide under scrutiny in a criminal leak probe, Karl Rove, yesterday vigorously denied an Internet report that the political adviser to President Bush was told that he had been indicted on charges of perjury and lying to investigators.

"The story is a complete fabrication," the spokesman for Mr. Rove, Mark Corallo, told The New York Sun. "It is both malicious and disgraceful."

To read this article in its entirety, you must be a subscriber to NYSun.com.

www.nysun.com/article/32727

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Karl Rove Indictment an elaborate Hoax? Did Jason Leopold get Rolled?

Most of US Media Waiting to see with Held Breath

by Steven Leser
opednews.com
May 15, 2006

Despite right wing media and blogosphere accusations, Jason Leopold has been a reliable source for some time. For now, I am willing to take it on faith that he has numerous well placed sources that did in fact tell him that Karl Rove had been indicted. As a journalist for Truthout ( http://www.truthout.org ), Jason has broken numerous stories ahead of the rest of the media which up until now have all proven to be true. If his story on the Rove indictment is incorrect, and I want to stress that we do not know either way right now, I have a theory as to what might have happened. Admittedly, like many theories, mine has several assumptions and ‘what ifs’ but each reader will have to decide for themselves what they believe. Eventually the truth will come out anyway.

We know that the Bush White House detests leaks perhaps more than any other administration in history. It is a relative certainty that Leopold’s past articles have gotten the attention of many in the administration. Assume for a moment that an internal White House investigation was conducted to ferret out those leaking information to Leopold. Once discovered, these individuals would be an excellent avenue with which to discredit Leopold by providing them false information which would then be transferred to the reporter.

Again, I am making assumptions and I want to dutifully make that clear. Now, assuming the White House had accurately identified the leakers. Let us take it one step further. Let us assume the White House sat on that information until an opportune moment presented itself. Such an opportune moment presented itself when it became clear that an embarrassing piece of evidence regarding Vice President Cheney was going to be submitted in a filing by Fitzgerald. The administration could provide a tasty bit of disinformation to Leopold’s sources and the attention of the reporter along with a fair amount of the progressive press would be turned to a story that would turn out to be false. This story and the rapid discovery that it was a hoax would overshadow the embarrassing filing by Prosecutor Fitzgerald. Indeed, it would overshadow the entire CIA Leak-Gate investigation or at least the reporting thereof for some time.

Again, we do not know at this point whether Leopold’s story is accurate or not and it if is not, we do not know why but I want to point out that if it turns out to not be accurate, there are a lot of possibilities. Rushing to a negative judgment of Jason is unfair until all the facts come out.

www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_060515_karl_rove_indictment.
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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.

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.

Jason Leopold spent two years covering California's electricity crisis as Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires. Jason has spent the last year cultivating sources close to the CIA leak investigation, and is a regular contributor to t r u t h o u t. He is the author of the new book NEWS JUNKIE. Visit www.newsjunkiebook.com for a preview.

www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206Y.shtml



In NEWS JUNKIE, the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed some of the biggest corporate and political scandals in recent American history. Leopold broke key stories about the California energy crisis and Enron Corporation's infamous phony trading floor as a reporter for the Dow Jones Newswire. While he exposed high-rolling hucksters and double-dealing politicians, Leopold hid the secrets of his own felonious past, terrified that he would be discovered.
www.processmediainc.com/press/mini_sites/news_junkie/


With names like Dick and Bush they HAVE to be good...
www.buzzflash.com/bradenton/04/05/bra04050.html

Wilson wants leak culprit 'frog-marched'
Wilson wrote that he told the CIA he could find no evidence to prove the Iraq-Niger connection nearly a year before President Bush referred to it in his 2003 State of the Union speech as part of the rationale for war with Iraq. Wilson, who was acting U.S. ambassador to Iraq during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and later was ambassador to Gabon, said on "Meet the Press" that he believed the leak was meant "to discourage others from coming forward." He said other reporters have told him that White House political adviser Karl Rove told them his wife was "fair game." Whoever released the name, Wilson said, "potentially engaged in outing a national security asset. "If that was determined to have been a crime, I would love to see them frog-marched out of the White House," he said.
www8.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/05/cia.leak/

"Frog marching refers to the practice of forcibly transporting a suspect or prisoner through a public place, up to and including carrying him/her by the limbs, causing them to be splayed in such a fashion that the person resembles a frog. Unlike the similar term perp walk, which refers to a less forcible transport of a prisoner (who often moves under his own power), the term frog march is used when the prisoner is forcibly moved."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog-march


Frogmarchin at da White House
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6879385199760030985&q=frog

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Perhaps Junior will announce Rove's arrest tonight on TeeVee? Or maybe he'll just resign?!

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Bush is nohting less than a fine human being and a proud, patriotic American.

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Web Report Of Rove Troubles Raises Rash Of Speculation

Has Karl Rove been indicted? That was the big rumor sweeping the Web over the weekend, courtesy of a report on the liberal Web site Truthout.org. On Saturday, Jason Leopold reported on the site that President Bush’s political architect had been informed of a pending indictment.

Had either of these stories appeared on the front page of The New York Times, or in Newsweek magazine, we would be in the throes of a media feeding frenzy. The Sunday Show slates would have been hurriedly rearranged to capitalize on this new “bombshell” and America would have woken up this morning to watch Rove make the quick walk-and-duck from his front door to his waiting car. But so far, Leopold’s story stands alone.

It’s not to say the report wasn’t noticed. At the conservative National Review, Byron York noted that the story was being checked out by other reporters who had not been able to substantiate it.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjQ4MzljZjIzYTFhNGY2NTIzMWY0M
TRlZTI0MDEyYzM=

York also reported that Rove’s spokesperson was denying the story. At CBS News, e-mails were sent out by correspondents reporting absolute denials of the story by named principles. And questions about Leopold’s past circulated on the Web.
www.gnn.tv/articles/709/Media_Meltdown_The_Jason_Leopold_Saga

Adding to the intrigue are comments suggesting he will reveal the names of his sources if the story does not turn out to be accurate.
www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/does-fitzmas-come-in-may-_b_21022.
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LEOPOLD MP3 AUDIO FILE THREATENING TO REVEAL HIS SOURCES:
www.threetwoone.org/audio/leopold.mp3

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It’s something that has the blogosphere buzzing, but has yet to be verified independently.
www.technorati.com/search/Jason%20Leopold

Presumably, we’ll know soon whether there is anything to this story. The fact nobody in the MSM has been able to verify it suggests the story is not accurate in some respects.

This is a curious story in so many ways. If it is true, why would Rove’s spokesperson issue such a strong denial?
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjQ4MzljZjIzYTFhNGY2NTIzMWY0M
TRlZTI0MDEyYzM=

It would appear pretty silly to deny one day what is going to happen the next. Would Leopold really reveal the names of his sources should the story turn out incorrect? What is really the difference between the use of anonymous sources in this instance and the many un-named sources we see in the MSM? And just consider the possibility that Leopold’s story could turn out to be accurate. What would that mean to the world of journalism?

www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/05/15/publiceye/entry1618732.shtml

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George W. Bush’s grandfather helped finance the Nazi Party. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Austrian father volunteered for the infamous Nazi SA and became a ranking officer. And Karl Rove can’t hide his joy at witnessing “a Nazi rally” in support of Bush. According to Wilson*, and to Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Al Martin ( www.almartinraw.com), Rove's grandfather was Karl Heinz Roverer, the Gauleiter of Oldenburg. Roverer was Reich-Statthalter---Nazi State Party Chairman---for his region. He was also a partner and senior engineer in the Roverer Süd-Deutsche Ingenieurburo A. G. engineering firm, which built the Birkenau death camp, at which tens of thousands of Jews, Gypsies, dissidents and other were slaughtered en masse.
www.freepress.org/departments.php?strFunc=display&strID=386&strYear=20
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So Karl Rove has been identified as the leaker responsible for the deaths of more than 70 CIA assets overseas (See previous story "Will the Real Chemical Ali Please Stand Up? The Curious Case of Ambassador Joseph Wilson). Wilson has announced that he will have his private attorneys petition the Department of Justice demanding that Roverer a/k/a Karl Rove be prosecuted under the 1982 Intelligence Identity Protection Act. The law carries an automatic mandatory 10 years to life imprisonment as punishment. This is very explosive and what makes it so explosive is that this Intelligence Identity Act, if it can be proved, and Rove can be successfully prosecuted and if Rove reveals that the president George Bush told him to institute this leak, then the President's automatic shield of immunity is removed and the president himself can be prosecuted for murder if any deaths of any US intelligence agents or assets resulted from the leak. OFU is George Bush Senior's term to describe the average American citizen. It stands for "One Fodder Unit."
www.rense.com/general42/rove.htm


http://piratenews.org/video-archive.html
Gannon/Gosch

"I'm very impressed with James Guckert. How often does an enterprising young man, heralded in press reports as both a reporter and a contributor to HotMilitaryStud.com, MilitaryEscortsM2M.com, WorkingBoys.net, and MeetLocalMen.com, get to meet the president of the United States? Who knew that a hotmilitarystud could so easily get face2face with the commander-in-chief?"
-Maureen Dowd, NY Times, "Invasion of the Reporter Snatchers", Feb 18, 2005 (upset that she was denied a White House press pass while "Gannon" was allowed to live in the White House)
www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/opinion/17dowd.html

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Fitzgerald Investigation of traitorous Jr Bush White House


To clarify: The entire basis for the information that "Rove has been cleared" comes from a verbal statement by Karl Rove's attorney. No one else confirms that. As Karl Rove's attorney Robert Luskin is bound to act - in all regards - in Rove's best interest. We question his motives.
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2006/6/13/104836/605

Just a general review of Jason Leopold's latest article on the Fitzgerald investigation/Rove indictment - for clarity.

Once again we will attempt to clearly separate what we know from what we believe - and why. What we know will be based on official records and official statements. What we believe will be based on single source information and general background information obtained from experts. The conclusions we arrive at should be considered carefully, but not taken as statements of fact, per se.
www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206Z.shtml

We know for certain several things about federal indictment "06 cr 128" (Sealed vs. Sealed). The indictment was returned by the same grand jury that has been hearing matters related to the Fitzgerald/Plame investigation. The indictment was filed in the time frame (around May the 10th) that the indictment of Karl Rove was first reported. The title of the indictment, Sealed vs. Sealed, is unusual. Typically a sealed federal indictment will be titled, "US vs. Sealed." The indictment has been sealed for roughly five weeks, an unusually long time (although not unheard-of). We know that experts watching the Fitzgerald/Plame investigation are keeping a very close eye on "06 cr 128" (Sealed vs. Sealed). We know that we attempted to contact Karl Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, on two occasions while researching this issue and both calls went unreturned.

Now for what we believe: We believe that federal criminal indictment "06 cr 128" (Sealed vs. Sealed) is directly related to the Fitzgerald/Plame investigation. That's based on a single credible source and the information discussed above. We believe that Karl Rove is cooperating with federal investigators, and for that reason Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is not willing to comment on his status. That is based, again, on a single credible source, and background information provided by experts in federal criminal law. We believe that the indictment was returned and filed "on May 10 2006." Same single credible source, and details from the filing records. We believe that if any of the key facts that we have reported were materially false or inaccurate some statement to that effect would be forthcoming from Fitzgerald's staff. That is based on the same single credible source.

http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2006/6/12/9216/61823

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"According to reliable sources, as well as our own Al Martin Raw.com investigation, Karl Rove is, in fact, the grandson of Karl Heinz Roverer, the gauleiter of Mecklenburg, who was also a partner and senior engineer of Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenieurbro AG. They built Birchenau, the concentration camp in Nazi Germany."
-Times of London, "The Inside story of US cabinet at war," 23 Nov 2002


www.internetweekly.org

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