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Politics : The Blame For Plame -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (58)	7/6/2005 10:52:44 AM
From: redfish	Respond to of 99

There is talk that an indictment of Rove is coming very soon: Message 21478581 While nobody but Fitzgerald knows if this is true, an indictment would be closer to the beginning of the investigation than the end, imo. An indicted Rove would be pressured to roll on Bush or Cheney in order to avoid prison ... if that comes to pass what is his choice likely to be? I think he would take a short prison sentence because it would make him a hero to the fringe right, but a sentence of a couple years is another story.

To: redfish who wrote (58)	7/6/2005 11:34:36 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 99

White House Scrambles to Stop Criminal Indictment of Rove By DOUG THOMPSON Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue Jul 6, 2005, 05:55 The Bush Administration is scrambling behind the scenes to stop a criminal indictment against Presidential advisor Karl Rove for disclosing classified information to reporters in an attempt to discredit a White House critic. Time Magazine emails turned over to a grand jury show Rove leaked CIA Operative Valerie Plame’s name to journalists after her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, went public with claims the Bush Administration knowing used false information to justify the invasion of Iraq. Plame, until the disclosure, worked as a covert operative for the intelligence agency. “Some government officials have noted to Time in interviews... that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,” Time reporter Matthew Cooper wrote in the magazine in July, 2003. Emails recently turned over to a federal grand jury investigating the leak show Cooper told his editors that Rove was the source of the information. In addition, Rove attorney Karl Luskin confirms that Cooper interviewed Rove for the article but claims that his client “never knowingly disclosed classified information.” However, a producer for MSNBC’s Hardball program testified before the grand jury that in July, 2003, Rove called the show’s host, Chris Matthews, and said Plame was “fair game.” capitolhillblue.com