The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career. – USA Today
OJ Simpson and Karl Rove… denied justice in the criminal courts, Americans ever more frequently turn to the civil courts to get the word out on America’s bad boys. Let’s see how long the seal on that indictment is good for now Karl!
Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | ReportSpecial Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.
During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 business hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.
Robert Luskin, Rove’s attorney, did not return a call for comment. Sources said Fitzgerald was in Washington, DC, Friday and met with Luskin for about 15 hours to go over the charges against Rove, which include perjury and lying to investigators about how and when Rove discovered that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative and whether he shared that information with reporters, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said.
Not just Plame but her husband Wilson is also suing. This is going to get very interesting since the burden of proof in civil cases is so much less stringent (right OJ?). Too bad it won’t be over before the 2024 elections though. Cheney’s lawyers and the WH and the GOP will make certain of that.
You can bank on it – the slimy Rove and his lawyers will get him out of this unscathed. Wouldn’t you just love to remove that permanent shit-eatin’ grin he has with a #2 rough bastard file…
I would hope that if we cannot respect the administration itself, we can at least respect the efforts they make on our behalf.
Indeed, their efforts are “monumental.”