The buzz says that Karl Rove has been indicted. Patrick Fitzgerald spent all day Friday at Rove’s lawyer’s office. We’ll see.
Other links worth following: “Cheney Pushed U.S. to Widen Eavesdropping“; Cheney’s role in Plamegate is getting fresh attention.
Frank Rich’s column for tomorrow’s New York Times is up behind the firewall, and it’s a doozy. Raw Story has excerpts. It might turn up at True Blue Liberal some time in the next few hours. [Update: Yep; here it is.] Here’s a bit not quoted on Raw Story:
This being an election year, Karl Rove hopes the hearings can portray Bush opponents as soft on terrorism when they question any national security move. It was this bullying that led so many Democrats to rubber-stamp the Iraq war resolution in the 2002 election season and Mr. Goss’s appointment in the autumn of 2004.
Will they fall into the same trap in 2006? Will they be so busy soliloquizing about civil liberties that they’ll fail to investigate the nominee’s record? It was under General Hayden, a self-styled electronic surveillance whiz, that the N.S.A. intercepted actual Qaeda messages on Sept. 10, 2001 — “Tomorrow is zero hour” for one — and failed to translate them until Sept. 12. That same fateful summer, General Hayden’s N.S.A. also failed to recognize that “some of the terrorists had set up shop literally under its nose,” as the national-security authority James Bamford wrote in The Washington Post in 2002. The Qaeda cell that hijacked American Flight 77 and plowed into the Pentagon was based in the same town, Laurel, Md., as the N.S.A., and “for months, the terrorists and the N.S.A. employees exercised in some of the same local health clubs and shopped in the same grocery stores.”
If Democrats — and, for that matter, Republicans — let a president with a Nixonesque approval rating install yet another second-rate sycophant at yet another security agency, even one as diminished as the C.I.A., someone should charge those senators with treason, too.
Please, Please, let it be true about Rove!
Are things starting to fall into place?
Yes, oh Yes, that is what I’ve been hearing about Cheney.
“The buzz says that Karl rove has been indicted”
Maha please don’t tease us. This sort of news is worthy of celebration in the streets. I have spent the whole day thinking about my freedom and listening to music. And wondering why I have to listen so much, to hear so little. The fact is: they are getting to all of us. With their bad news, rape, disappearances cases (only for wealthy white people), diametrically opposed political arguments, and general misleading bullshit. Something like the great soft moon face of Karl Rove getting locked up is too good to be true?
A link I put up last night, still needs to be heard.
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/9755.php
Maha please don’t tease us.
I’ve been holding off saying anything, because it seems only the one guy at Truthout is saying that there is an indictment already. So I’m skeptical. It’s gettng blogged about a lot, though.
Considering that Fitzgerald’s most recent court filing seems to focus more on Cheney than Rove, I’m wondering if Fitz is trying to flip Karl to get Cheney.
Yeah I just read some of it, and looked at the clock, it seems a little late for this sort of story, but a man (woman) can dream. We’ll find out tomorrow on those trusty Sunday morning shows?
If it’s true about Rove being indicted..Then Christmas has come early..and the timing is perfection.
S#&mi wrote some words on this site last night, they boil down to:
G.W. asked 5 telecom corps for records. Only 4 responded . One company Qwest did not. If the NSA domestic phone database (wait for a new friendly patriotic nick-name) was really legal, why didn’t they demand Qwest’s records. Why didn’t Alberto and his buddies demand the records from Qwest? Why? No suspects in the great northwest? What happened to Qwest? How effective is the database if it’s not complete? And if Qwest told the G-men they had legal reservations, why didn’t the D.O.J. explain themselves? Maybe they are Lazy? Or maybe they are running? Or maybe they had no legal right.
Oh Happy Day! Rove being indicted certainly will be an early Christmas present. But Cheney maha? – if he gets so much as a smudge on his reputation via Fitzgerald, then I will truly have died and gone to heaven!
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“He who the gods wish to destroy, they first make famous.” I remember someone repeating this quote after Rove became known as the boy genius. God I wish I could take heart in this houses fall but I fear we are all under the same roof…
Since it is late in this thread, I hope it is ok if I rant a bit about an aspect of this story that really pisses me off….
karl and dear leader have known for sometime about karls roll in this mess, yet they are hanging on till rove is actually getting his mug shot before they are going to deal with it..That, my friends is BULLSHIT….The thought that bush left someone who had already proven by leaking that he can not be trusted with classified info in a position where he had could access all of the nations most sensitive information is nothing shy of stunning..
How much did this investigation cost the tax payer?, when we are a nation “at war”.?..They knew all along who was at the bottom of the turd pile, but rather than face up to it, they chose to drag the nation thru all this on our bill..and notice too how until they are FORCED to do the right thing they have hung on to good old karl, national security be damned….They are waiting to be sure Fitzgearld can prove it before they kick karl to the curb, despite the fact they know what he has done….they intend to wait until the second they are caught to do the right thing…Sad!
Dear leader was warned that he should distance himself from rove before libby was even indicted…only in the past 2 weeks has he taken steps to do this by shifting roves duties to the 06 elections…some may recall at that time I asked here “Was rove stripped of his security clearance also?” of course the liberal media never asked that question..they were, after all, busy being mad at Colbert.
That “shift” seemed to come just on the heels of roves 5th trip to the Grand Jury..perhaps rove and /or Luskin saw the writing on the wall and tried to get ahead of it , avoiding a public loss of his position…thus while his official title changed he could continue to work where ever he wanted with his security clearance in tact…
I don’t dance around like bush co,, so let me be clear..I want that man the bleep out of MY house..I don’t care of he leaked to save Jesus himself… the idea that he still may have clearance is disturbing….leaking this information at a time of war is treason…so what is KNOWING about it and allowing him to stay on anyhow??
Here is another chance for the left to say to the right”National security?, really?”This is the one issue bush still leads on , but time and time again he has FAILED…from secure borders to port deals with UAE…and time and time again the left fails to take it to the right and rub their rotten little noses in it for ALL the world to see..WTF????
And they say they need to spy on us??Our employees spying on us while they leave a guy whom they know will soon be a convicted felon with total access to our national security secrets? I think the people need to start the PSA -Peoples Spy agency to keep an eye on our employees — someone needs to keep an eye on all these felons running around in the whitehouse, since bush lacks the judgement to kick them out…plus think of the money the PSA could save us in needless investigations…if the people had their own spy agency we would have known the leak before the last election..
We should all be worried..karl rove would sell the national security of this country to china to save himself…upon his conviction he will be the nations most dangerous felon..I am not sure a prison exists where Americans will ever be safe from him. I would not trust for even a second that he would not work to overthrow a future government with an enemy to regain his status or even as payback…I would not trust that he would not sell national security secrets…something to consider…
And if I were bush(sweet mother of pearl!) I would be worried too..rove would sell out bush in a second to save his own ass..and given fitzgearlds timing, rove may not be convicted in time for a bush pardon..if rove thinks that may be the case look out georgie..
ok I feel somewhat better,bring on the mug shot!!!!!!
Rove best get that KY jelly ready, there are some despritely horney
inmates at club Fed……..Vote out all incumbent Repugs,pass the word, Rove will go and prepare a place for Cheney and a passel of NeoCONS.