'Official A' Stands Out in Indictment (Rove?)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a sign of the trouble lingering for the Bush administration, the indictment handed up Friday in the CIA leak probe refers to someone at the White House known as ``Official A.''

The unidentified official could become a courtroom witness against I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, who left his job as vice presidential aide shortly after his indictment on charges of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury.

Several other unnamed officials mentioned in the indictment were identified Friday afternoon by Justice Department officials.

But not ``Official A.''


~snip~

Late Friday, three people close to the investigation, each asking to remain unidentified because of grand jury secrecy, identified Rove as Official A.


more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5377649,00.html

[ShockediSay]

1. Who wants to bet that one or the other will turn

into a co-operating witness for more serious crimes involving other higher ups?

[truthisfreedom]

2. yeah, right. like we can't figure out it's f*$)ing CHENEY.

sheesh.

[maddezmom]

3. I don't think it's Cheney

but I'm not so sure it's rove either, but looks like the media thinks it's Rove.

Leaker! The man
they call Bush's Brain

Rove not out of trouble as new grand jury may convene

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
and RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU


Karl Rove

WASHINGTON - White House political director Karl Rove was identified yesterday as the shadowy official who blew the cover of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Rove, dubbed "Bush's Brain" for his political genius, was not indicted for his role in the leak and subsequent coverup.

Instead, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicted Vice President Cheney's chief of staff Lewis (Scooter) Libby on five counts of lying to federal officials and a grand jury.

The closest Fitzgerald came to identifying the leaker is a press release that says "senior White House official ('Official A')" gave Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak, who promptly printed it.


more:http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/360352p-307050c.html

[Teaser]

4. Already IDed as Rove

by Pete Yost.

[maddezmom]

5. this AP story is by Yost

:)

[papau]

6. Protecting a not charged person's ID - Rove? - more likely Bush himself.

:-)

[Mike_The_Computer]

7. Rove's strategy: One lie at a time, sweet Jesus.

Libby screwed that simple strategy up, but Rove knows that he must continue to juggle multiple deceptions in order to stay out of jail. Too bad for Karl: Fitzgerald is much too canny to allow it.

[catmandu57]

8. Bolton

he's going to sing like a canary to keep his ugly ass out of prison.

[AlinPA]

9. If Bush** pardons Libby and has Fitzgerald fired ? Politically bad, but

after everything Bush**-Rove have done they are still in office and are still running the country into the ground. Who can stop them? We can't recall them.

[AlCzervik]

10. CNN had that as breaking news last night, said

"officials close to the investigation confirm A is Rove"

[Moderator]

11. kick

[WhiteTara]

12. AP: Mysterious 'Official A' is Karl Rove

as if we didn't know. Here is AP confirmation.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001392393
WASHINGTON In a sign of the trouble lingering for the Bush administration, the indictment handed up Friday in the CIA leak probe refers to someone at the White House known as "Official A."
snip
It has been known that columnist Robert Novak spoke to Rove on July 9, 2003, saying he planned to report over the weekend that Valerie Plame, the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, had worked for the CIA. Rove told the columnist he had heard similar information.

Friday's indictment says "Official A" is a "senior official in the White House who advised Libby on July 10 or 11 of 2003" about a chat with Novak about his upcoming column in which Plame would be identified as a CIA employee.

Late Friday, three people close to the investigation, each asking to remain unidentified because of grand jury secrecy, identified Rove as Official A.

[bettyellen]

13. so * will make good on his promise and fire the bastard now?

[shenmue]

15. What do you think?

I say...um...no.

They'll have to drag every one of these ****ers screaming out into the street.

At least it has begun.

[tmooses]

14. Rove= "no partisan gunslinger" per Novak? These people have lost

any relationship they ever had to credibility.

[emulatorloo]

17. would Novak be able to recognize a "partisan gunslinger?"

I mean, it is all a matter of perspective after all. I am sure Godzilla would think King Kong "is not such a monster after all."

[Rose Siding]

16. Are all of the ex-jurors bound not to tell anything?

For now and always?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Basically, yes, as far as I know.

[Kingofalldems]

18. At the very least his security clearance should have been

revoked.

[kanrok]

20. Interesting to note

In Illinois, the ex-Governor of the State of Illinois (George Ryan) is currently being prosecuted by Fitzgerald's office (the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois). Initially, Ryan was not indicted, but he was designated as "Offical A" in the original indictment. It wasn't until Fitzgerld squeezed one if Ryan's closest advisors (Scott Fawell) that Ryan was indicted, now being tried. So, there is a precedent here. Hope springs eternal.

[koopie57]

21. by the way, has anyone see Novak lately? eom

[A Brand New World]

22. No - he's in his vampire casket waiting to emerge tomorrow

night at midnight. Beware!

[ClintonTyree]

23. He's a pariah.......

all of his former GOP amigos are shunning him like a leper now. No one wants to go near him. He ratted out Libby, Rove and the rest in a second, he sang like a canary to save his own shriveled, old ass.
Old, ugly, evil and friendless, we'll probably hear about Novak slitting his wrists in a bathtub soon. If we're lucky.