- Did Rove cop a last minute deal with Fitzgerald? Newsweek
is reporting some last-minute two-steps by Karl Rove and his attorney during
the early morning of Oct. 28, just before Patrick Fitzgerald indicted Lewis
Libby, Cheney's Chief of Staff. But none of this reportage should be taken
that the storm at the White House has passed.
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- On Oct. 25, Fitzgerald and chief Leakgate FBI Special
Agent Jack Eckenrode visited Rove's attorney Robert Luskin at his law firm
Patton Boggs. Luskin apparently proffered some new evidence to Fitzgerald
and Eckenrode. The new evidence, said to be a July 11, 2003 email from
Rove to then-media aide Adam Levine, reportedly gave Fitzgerald "pause."
The email, timed at 11:17 am, moments after Rove talked to Matt Cooper
about Valerie Plame Wilson, asked Levine to come to Rove's office to discuss
a "personnel issue." This email may be a red herring.
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- The question is why a relatively insignificant email
that did nothing to absolve Rove, given to a hardened prosecutor who has
taken down a GOP administration in Springfield, Illinois and who is going
after the Daley machine in the Chicago City Hall and the corporate neo-con
barons of Hollinger, would cause Fitzgerald to "pause?" There
is an answer but hold on a second.
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- Early in the morning, Fitzgerald paid a visit to James
Sharp, President Bush's personal attorney at his DC office. Newsweek is
reporting that Fitzgerald told Sharp that Rove would not be charged.
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- The editor believes there is another explanation for
these public Fitzgerald visits. During a week when Fitzgerald's every movement,
including a visit to a shoeshine parlor, was being reported by the media,
he had to realize that his visits to Luskin's office at Patton Boggs at
2550 M St. and Sharp's office at Sharp & Associates at 1215 19th St.
-- -- both heart in the middle of Washington's "see and be seen"
business area -- would be picked up by media outlets.
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- Unlike Newsweek, the editor believes that while Fitzgerald
could have picked up the phone to talk to either Luskin or Sharp, he chose
to pay personal visits to send a message to the media and to other targets.
That message is that he has enough on Rove to engineer a cooperation agreement
from Bush's "brain." Just as Fitzgerald convinced Lewis Libby's
assistants John Hannah and David Wurmser to cooperate against the indicted
former Chief of Staff, Rove is a target for outright indictment or cooperation
in lieu of indictment. Newsweek, owned by the Bush-friendly Washington
Post and home to Bush hand puppet Bob Woodward, is misreading the Fitzgerald
visits to the two attorneys.
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- Now that Libby has been indicted, Fitzgerald's modus
operandi will be to try and get even Libby to implicate others. That obviously
includes the person whose criminal defense attorney -- Terrence O'Donnell
of Williams and Connolly-- was not afforded a personal visit. O'Donnell's
client is Cheney.
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- The GOP spinmeisters are claiming that the outing of
a covert CIA agent and her network was not a conspiracy and was no big
thing. However, a last minute visit by the prosecutor to the President's
criminal defense attorney after Rove's attorney gave the prosecutor new
evidence that caused him to "pause" means one thing -- Bush is
also a target of the criminal probe. Bush's last words in Leakgate may
very well be, "Et tu Karl?"
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- Bush's Supreme Court pick, Samuel Alito (or "Scalito,"
since he's an ideological twin of Opus Dei adherent Antonin Scalia), is
engineered by Karl Rove as a way to change the songsheet in DC. Now there
will be discussions about invoking the Senate "Gang of 14" to
filibuster this extremely conservative 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals judge
who is anti-Roe v. Wade, anti-privacy, anti-civil rights, and pro-corporation.
However, the special prosecutor is singing from a different songsheet.
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- Alito nomination: A Karl Rove diversion
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- Another diversion, engineered by neo-con Minnesota Republican
Senator Norm Coleman, was to recently refer Senate testimony by British
MP George Galloway on the UN Oil-for-Food program to the Department of
Justice, US Attorneys for DC and Manhattan, and the Manhattan District
Attorney for criminal investigation. It would be surprising if any law
enforcement official takes seriously Coleman's charges or those of former
Fed Chairman Paul Volcker that Galloway benefited from oil concessions
from Saddam Hussein. The "evidence" Coleman proffered was based
on crude forgeries obtained from circles associated with bank embezzler
and known prevaricator Ahmad Chalabi, who is now, not coincidentally, Iraq's
Oil Minister. The neocons are still upset that Galloway trounced one of
their own, Labor's Oona King, a pro-Likud shill, in east London's largely
East Asian Bethnal Green and Bow constituency.
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