WP: Froomkin - "Rove's Last Campaign"

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/10/26/BL2005102601379.html

Rove's Last Campaign



By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, October 26, 2005; 2:12 PM

Will Karl Rove, architect of President Bush's improbable political career, snatch one last victory from the jaws of defeat? (Or at least avoid getting indicted?) Something appears to have provoked special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald into a last-minute flurry of activity centered around Rove.

Tom Hamburger, Richard B. Schmitt and Peter Wallsten write in the Los Angeles Times: "Prosecutors investigating the leak of a CIA agent's identity returned their attention to powerful White House advisor Karl Rove on Tuesday, questioning a former West Wing colleague about contacts Rove had with reporters in the days leading to the outing of a covert CIA officer. . . .

"Fitzgerald's investigators asked the former colleague about any comments Rove may have made about his conversations with journalists in the days before Plame's name was made public by syndicated columnist Robert Novak."

Whether this is good or bad news for Rove is unclear. But here's what you need to keep in mind: There is every reason to think that Rove is throwing every move he's got at Fitzgerald in an attempt to escape criminal charges.

[Tesla]

1. They said on CNN that his lawyer went in for a last minute meeting

with Fitz before he left the court.

[electropop]

2. Sure Rove's attacking Fitz.

It's bouncing right off. Nobody gives a crap what Rove says any more, and he's in such a state of confusion that he's firing blanks.

[glitch]

3. The WH is leaking more than my incontinent dog.

Poor incontinent whitehouse. Perhaps we should all send them some Depends.

[bertha katzenengel]

4. get this quote

"Anyone who takes an honest look at his history will come away awed by Rove's power, when challenged, to draw on an animal ferocity that far exceeds the chest-thumping bravado common to professional political operatives."

I'd love to come face to face with this guy. He needs to know what spittle feels like when it hits near the eye.