Rove will be indicted

[snowbird42]

UPDATE: Plamegate: the Next Step

This just in from the AP:

Federal prosecutors have accepted an offer from presidential adviser Karl Rove to give 11th-hour testimony in the case of a CIA officer's leaked identity but have warned they cannot guarantee he won't be indicted, according to people directly familiar with the investigation.

What this means is Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin, believes his client is defintely going to be indicted.
So, Luskin is sending Rove back into the grand jury to try to get around the prosecutor and sell his innocence directly to the grand jurors. Legal defense work doesn't get more desperate than this. The prosecutor is happy to let Rove go under oath again--without his lawyer in the room--and try to wiggle out of the case. The prosecutor has every right to expect that Rove's final under-oath grilling will either add a count or two to the indictment or force Rove to flip and testify against someone else.

Read my initial Palmegate: the Next Step post here

[Stand and Fight]

1. Is this from a news source?

Or is it your own speculation?

Either way, you should post a link.

[snowbird42]

2. from Lawrence O'Donnell

[snowbird42]

6. I typed wrong the first post.

This is an update on ODonnells post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/update-plamegate-the-ne_b_8457.html


Lets hope hes right again

[0007]

16. Thank you !!

[ananda]

3. so..

.. is this curtains for Libby and Cheney? hehheh

[CitrusLib]

4. Couldn't happen to a sleezier guy.

[npincus]

5. what will B*sh do without his Brain?

[melissinha]

7. intersting theory

Interesting theory.
"Luskin is sending Rove back into the grand jury to try to get around the prosecutor and sell his innocence directly to the grand jurors."

very appealling:
The prosecutor has every right to expect that Rove's final under-oath grilling will either add a count or two to the indictment or force Rove to flip and testify against someone else.
Hopefully: "

[AllegroRondo]

13. My bet

he either turns and testifies against someone else, or plea bargains it.

[kikiek]

8. That sounds good. Explains why he would go back on his own. Thanks

I was wondering about it.

[1956]

10. I wonder if

Fitz and co. have had threats against them, and if Rove is indicted(please,please) will they worry for their lives still?
Also, rest assured....even if Rovey goes to jail- he will still be able to feed the answers to Shrub. Cell-phones-walkie-talkies. Just cuz Rove would be in a different location-doesn't mean a thing about his ability to BE the prez.
Frankly- I wish it was ALL of the asses of evil-every last one of those fascists!!!

[kikiek]

12. It might be all of them. Impeachment is on the horizon.

[speedoo]

9. As usual, O'Donnell's logic is spot on.

Recommended.

[speedoo]

11. kick n/t

[Wickerman]

14. So, is Rove going to go to the Grand Jury

and spill what he has on each and every member? Only way out I see.

[Maat]

15. I definitely agree that it is 'desperation time.'

I've been clerking for a defense firm; this seems consistent with what they tell me.