White House debate: Is it time for Rove to go?

[Algorem]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002600915_leak03.html

Thursday, November 3, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

White House debate: Is it time for Rove to go?
By Jim VandeHei and Carol D. Leonnig

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.

If Rove stays, which colleagues say remains his intention, he may at a minimum have to issue a formal apology for misleading colleagues and the public about his role in conversations that led to the unmasking of CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to senior Republican sources.

While Rove faces doubts about his White House status, there are new indications he remains in legal jeopardy from Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's criminal investigation of the Plame leak.

The prosecutor spoke this week with the lawyer for Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper about his client's telephone conversations with Rove before and after Plame's identity became publicly known because of anonymous disclosures by White House officials, according to two sources.

[rodeodance]

1. Geech!--just give him the pink slip. Enough already!

[Nightwing]

2. Another link; Rove's Future Role Is Debated (WaPo)

It certainly appears that Rove will be indicted soon and I couldnt be happier. Go get em Fitz!!
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Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.

If Rove stays, which colleagues say remains his intention, he may at a minimum have to issue a formal apology for misleading colleagues and the public about his role in conversations that led to the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame, according to senior Republican sources familiar with White House deliberations.

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Fitzgerald is considering charging Rove with making false statements in the course of the 22-month probe, and sources close to Rove -- who holds the titles of senior adviser and White House deputy chief of staff -- said they expect to know within weeks whether the most powerful aide in the White House will be accused of a crime.

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Fitzgerald made it clear to Rove's attorney in private conversations last week that his client remains under investigation. And he signaled the same in his indictment of Libby on Friday, in which he identified a senior White House official who had conversations related to the Plame leak as "Official A." White House colleagues say Rove is clearly "Official A," based on the detailed description.

More at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110203276_2.html

[Skittles]

3. he is a f***ing security risk and he should be fired

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