Rove's Lawyer - An On-the-Record Liar (L.O'Donnell)

[katty]

con'd at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/roves-lawyer-an-onther_b_11871.html

excerpt:

-You’re Rove’s lawyer. You’re sitting there with a Time reporter discussing another Time reporter’s secret source. You say it wasn’t your client. The Time reporter says that’s not what I hear. You try not to fall off your chair and keep the conversation going. This moment made every hour Luskin has ever spent working the press worth it. And it made every penny Rove has paid Luskin not enough.

Luskin then tells his client that the word inside Time magazine is that he is Time’s source. Rove then conducts a “new” email search at the White House and finds one of his quickies written right after his fateful conversation with Cooper that shows, well, yeah, he was Cooper’s source.

Luskin then brings that email to Fitzgerald and explains that they just found it and it has jogged Rove’s memory. Rove would now like to return to the grand jury and tell them about being Cooper’s source. Fitzgerald obliges.

Luskin knows that Rove is still in trouble after he corrects his testimony. As indictment week approaches, Luskin has a final meeting with Fitzgerald.

[MADem]

1. Here's another interesting take on the dynamic of timing

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/9/101031/299

The links within the above link are good reading, too.