Lawrence O'Donnell: Rove’s Lawyer an on-the-Record Liar

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At Arianna’s HuffPo party last month, Mickey Kaus was surprised when I told him I did not think Bob Luskin was a liar. In several posts here, I’ve had my fun with Luskin’s endless media spinning on behalf of his most famous client, Karl Rove, but I have never said he is a liar.

That was then.

Rove’s lawyer is now an on-the-record liar. The proof: Luskin told the Washington Post the other day that if Rove escapes indictment, it won’t be “the product of my particular skill or cleverness.” Whenever prominent Washingtonians resort to humility in print, they are lying at minimum about their state of mind. Luskin’s lie runs deeper than that. The truth is Rove is not yet indicted exclusively because of his lawyer’s “particular skill.”

The Washington Post profile that provoked Luskin’s one-and-only public lie stresses how good Luskin is at both the legal complexities of criminal defense work and the much simpler but time-consuming task of spinning/using the Washington press corps. If Luskin wasn’t brilliant at both of those things, Rove would be indicted now. Luskin’s use of Viveca Novak in his last minute meeting with Patrick Fitzgerald as the first grand jury’s term was expiring is what left Fitzgerald with only one name to indict.

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More at the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/roves-lawyer-an-onthe_b_11871.html

Will be interesting to observe the response(s) to this O'Donnell gem ....


Peace.