Rove: ‘I Fully Expect To Be Indicted By The End Of The Year’

[Demeter]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/10/rove-iowa/


Karl Rove, former senior aide to President Bush, spoke to a hostile crowd at the University of Iowa... Students and local citizens protested his appearance at the university and “staged a mock trial” for Rove inside the student union before the speech.

During the lecture, Rove lashed out at hostile questioners, telling one man his comment showed “a simple, stupid mind” and chastised what he said were “stupid statements” from the audience. Rove also said that former Amb. Joseph Wilson “lied” about his 2002 trip to Niger and accused an audience member of “perpetuating libel” on the U.S. military for asking about the real number of deaths in the Iraq war:
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Responding to a question about CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson’s outing, Rove, seemingly joking, added:

I haven’t been indicted yet, but I fully expect to be by the end of the year.

The University paid Rove $40,000 for the speech and had to agree to limit “recording equipment and flash photography” to “the first five minutes of the lecture.” At the end of the talk, an audience member shouted at Rove: “Can we have our $40,000 back?” Rove replied: “No, you can’t.”

Perhaps Rove needs to keep the $40,000 in expectation of substantial legal fees.

[Parche]

1. what an a$$hat

:grr: :grr: :grr:

:hi:

[islandmkl]

2. he's gotta get into the 'pardon window'....

he probably wants to get indicted soon....

wouldn't want W to leave him hanging, so to speak...

[mcctatas]

3. Now there's an image that made me smile...

of course since I'm anti DP, he would have to be strung up by something other than his neck;)

[Gman]

4. Bush can (and likely will) pardon him anyway

as Ford pardoned Nixon before Nixon was charged with anything, and as is the right of the president.

[Aviation Pro]

5. Yeah, but being declared an enemy combatant....

...trumps President Insane's pardon.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Blanket pardon for any offense? I dunno. Nixon had been impeached, and was

facing trial by the Senate. There was a bill of particulars. What did Ford's pardon say? Anything at all that Nixon did, in his entire time in office, that he might be prosecuted for, I hereby pardon him for? I don't remember the wording. Was it like that?

In any case--if it was--that was a President (emperor, pusher of the red button, potential killer of all life on earth). We're talking about an AIDE. I'm sure Bush & handlers would think nothing of pardoning everyone who ever came near the White House during the Bush Junta, for all past and future crimes, and, with this Congress, might well get away with it. But that doesn't make it reasonable or right, or legal.

They are setting up all kinds of immunities--for spying, for torture--and have already shredded thousands of emails that we know about--so we know what's on their minds. And it is at least a pleasant, hopeful thought that tough prosecutors like Patrick Fitzgerald are really pissed, are holding back, and will let loose, once Bush is out and can't pardon any more. You're saying there's no hope? Aw, heck.

[1monster]

7. No. Nixon had not yet been impeached. There were impeachment hearing

going on and a vote on impeachment was upcoming. However, Nixon resigned before the vote. Nixon was advised by several promenent GOP Senators, including Howard Baker, that he would be found guilty in a trial by the Senate.

[Gman]

8. Nixon was never actually impeached

he resigned knowing the votes were there to impeach and articles of impeachment were being approved at the time. Is that splitting hairs? Probably. But the fact still remains that the president does not need a reason, much less a good reason to pardon anyone he wants to pardon. That's the constitution. And you can take it to the bank that each and every one of these felons will receive pardons for anything they might have done, failed to do or even thought about doing. The pardons will be full and complete and a very big blanket. They will leave nothing to chance or interpretation.

[Fovea]

9. The Karl Rove Highway in Alabama.

Will not be a tribute as much as an acknowledgment of the amount of road crew work he will wind up doing down there.