Rove not truthful with FBI (Murray Waas, American Prospect)

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Did Rove pull a Martha?

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10016

Karl Rove's alibi would be easier to believe if he hadn't hidden it from FBI investigators in 2003.

By Murray Waas

White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove did not disclose that he had ever discussed CIA officer Valerie Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper during Rove’s first interview with the FBI, according to legal sources with firsthand knowledge of the matter.

The omission by Rove created doubt for federal investigators, almost from the inception of their criminal probe into who leaked Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak, as to whether Rove was withholding crucial information from them, and perhaps even misleading or lying to them, the sources said.

Also leading to the early skepticism of Rove's accounts was the claim that although he first heard that Plame worked for the CIA from a journalist, he said could not recall the name of the journalist. Later, the sources said, Rove wavered even further, saying he was not sure at all where he first heard the information.

Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, has said that Rove never knew that Plame was a covert officer when he discussed her CIA employment with reporters, and that he only first learned of her clandestine status when he read about it in the newspaper. Luskin did not return a telephone call today seeking comment for this story.

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1. Why am I not surprised. Thanks for the article. I'll keep it kicked. nt

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4. Thanks. I think the article underscores the point that these crooks

are on the line for far more than is commonly assumed.

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[Carla in Ca]

32. Rove lied to the FBI?

Here's Josh Marshall's reaction:


If Murray Waas's sources are right, Karl Rove is in a ton of trouble, even if he did nothing more than we know already.

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It's no wonder the Supreme Court announcement is today. It's looking like this week's revelations are going to show that Fitzgerald has enough to indict Rove for obstruction of justice .

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5. Man I hope they have something that will stick.........n/t

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7. Would a damage report from the leak do it?

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13. I honestly don't know......

The fact that this investigation has gone on for over two years is a good one. Chances are someone is going down. I just don't know who.

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15. 2 years would be enough time to research the damage

resulting from the leak, which could change the nature of this thing big time.

We haven't heard about the damage yet, because it is classified info. Do you suppose the Grand Jury has been given this info? If there were a possible crime, they would have to have it wouldn't they.

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27. I would think so, but I have no way of knowing for sure..........

Something big happened because Miller's in jail. They wouldn't jail her to compel her to talk over nothing. Also one of the judges in the case had claimed that things had taken a "dramatic turn" whatever that means. The Grand Jury is in session until Oct., so I doubt anything will happen until then. (I'm hoping it happens before then though.)

[Lecky]

6. Some good news :)

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8. Sam Seder is talking about this article right now

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10. Article is posted in LBN too. I nominated it. Please join me.

It's huge.

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18. Like your sig. What's with . ?

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26. It's my way of keeping it real. nt

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21. If Martha could spend 5 months in jail for "omitting" info from fed prosec

prosecutors, then on this more serious matter which amounts to a matter of treason, Rove who specifically LIED to the fed prosecutos
should spend 20 years in jail.

On edit: following in the footsteps of his mentor and trainer, Donald Segretti of 'dirty tricks' fame in the Nixon administration.

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