MSNBC’s Shuster: Signs Point To Rove Indictment

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/21/...ve-indictment/

Last night, MSNBC’s David Shuster took a look at recent court filings by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and suggests that Karl Rove is likely to be indicted. Watch it:

http://images1.americanprogress.org/...r1.320.240.mov

Three key points made by Shuster:

1. The latest court documents, for the first time, name Rove as a subject of the investigation.

2. The court documents go out of their way to say that Rove will not be called as a witness in Scooter Libby’s trial, even though Rove is a key part of the narrative. Shuster notes that this is done when prosecutors want to “leave open the possibility of later charging that particular subject in a separate case.”

3. Rove is referred in court documents as “Official A.” Shuster says “in every single case we have found, Keith, that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald when he designates somebody as Official A in an indictment, that person eventually does get indicted themselves.”

(HT: Atrios)

Transcript:

KEITH OLBERMANN: First off, the base line here. Has the status of the Fitzgerald grand jury changed? Has the status of Mr. Rove in the investigation process itself changed?

DAVID SHUSTER: Well, first on the investigation, defense lawyers say that the grand jury investigation is active again and that the panel has been meeting in recent weeks, although prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was not seen at the grand jury this week, and hasn’t been seen there for some time. Now regarding Karl Rove, according to the latest documents, the first time Rove is now described as a subject in the overall case - a subject being a technical term meaning somebody is under investigation. And the latest prosecution documents also go out of their way to suggest that Rove is not going to be a prosecution witness at the Libby trial even though Rove is part of the narrative against Scooter Libby. And the reason that’s significant is because prosecutors usually don’t put subjects on the witness stand for tactical reasons if they want to leave open the possibility of later charging that particular subject in a separate case.

The other thing that has long been intriguing about Karl Rove, and that is, we’ve known for months that in the Scooter Libby indictment when they refer to Official A, Official A is Karl Rove. And the indictment against Libby says that Official A disclosed to Scooter Libby that he had had a conversation with columnist Robert Novak. The reason prosecutors describe an official as an Official A is when there’s pejorative information about that person, and the person has not yet been indicted and had a chance to defend themselves. But we’ve looked at prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s record as far as designating people as Official A or Official B, and in every single case we have found, Keith, that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald when he designates somebody as Official A in an indictment, that person eventually does get indicted themselves. And that’s why I think with everything coming together there is so much intrigue tonight about Karl Rove.

[SuzeQuze]

Rove's dirty tricks have, perhaps, finally caught up with him!

[DavidMn]

It's payback time hopefully!

[irishgrl]

oh HO! *does the happy dance*

[vermicious knid]

There is a good website called Bartcop that made a prediction about this.

Bush is going to pardon these bastards before the trial and the sorry-ass Democrats will be shocked!
They'll issue press releases saying they are "disapppointed" that Bush pardoned everyone before
the truth about their worldwide crime spree could be told to the voters..

If they would consider an ounce of prevention, they could avoid acting all shocked when he does that.
Put him on notice right now that he can pardon anybody he wants - that's the law.

But if he pardons anybody before their trial, then they should promise to shut down the government
until impeachment hearings are underway and, goddammit, they should stick to that as if they had balls.

Bush is a cowardly little **** who's always had everything handed to him and he's always had Poppy
to bail him out. This cycle need to be broken before we lose another 2378 soldiers.

What will it take to wake up the cowardly Democrats? Bush's approval is at 36 percent!
Two-thirds of the country disapproves of his crimes, so step up and stop him.

Sounds about right to me.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by vermicious knid

There is a good website called Bartcop that made a prediction about this.



Sounds about right to me.

Thanks for this. Now I don't have to be surprised when he pulls this sleezeball trick. I'm so pissed off at people for being surprised by Bush's fall and the Iraq war failure. Hello? WTF did they think was going on? Are the sheeple waking?