Prosecutors to Question Rove on U.S. Attorney Firings

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Washington Post

Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed tomorrow as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, according to two sources familiar with the appointment.

Rove has remained in the news as a commentator and political analyst since departing the White House. In an essay in today's Wall Street Journal, he criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), arguing that she may have misled the public about her knowledge of detainee interrogation tactics that critics assert are torture.

As a senior adviser to President George W. Bush, Rove emerged at the center of numerous policy and political debates. He will be questioned tomorrow by Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy, who was named last year to examine whether any former senior Justice Department and White House officials lied or obstructed justice in connection with the dismissal of federal prosecutors in 2006.

Robert D. Luskin, a lawyer for Rove, declined comment this afternoon on the imminent interview. So did Tom Carson, a spokesman for Dannehy. . .

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/14/AR2009051402816.html

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Well, well. Maybe we are finally going to get somewhere in getting him frog marched to jail, as he so richly deserves.

[aquart]

1. "Karl, would you like to answer a few questions?" "No." "Okay."

Or am I being too cynical?

[pkdu]

4. Criminal Investigation (not congress) so you're suggesting he will

"plead the fifth" ?

Possible - but he's lied/dissembled to Feds before and got away with it.... I really hope he tries again - and gets nailed.


This is what we need to see!

[The Hope Mobile]

7. I'd love to see that too. Hope its not too optimistic. nt

[The Wizard]

11. I'd rather see him

with a blindfold and a cigarette.

[aquart]

16. I know I do.

[BeHereNow]

5. Not cynical at all- dead on, I'd say.

"Closed" session is the key.
Blah, blah and blah-
It just never ends and is just REALLY bad theatre at this point.

I was watching the farce on C-Span about the latest 97 BILLION going to the MIC-
finally had to turn it off.
I can't watch anymore.

BHN

[polichick]

2. Well, it's about time. Rove is almost as slimy as Cheney.

[Vidar]

3. I hope it works out.

[Faygo Kid]

6. About Nora Dannehy, the prosecutor: “She’s stubborn as hell and very, very smart,”

She has her hands full with one of the nation's most pathological liars, but she sounds pretty sharp: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/09/30/a-look-at-nora-dannehy-the-newest-addition-to-the-us-attorney-mess/.

[Douglas Carpenter]

8. Prosecutors to Question Rove on U.S. Attorney Firings

Source: Washington Post

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 14, 2009; 3:09 PM

Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed tomorrow as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, according to two sources familiar with the appointment.

Rove has remained in the news as a commentator and political analyst since departing the White House. In an essay in today's Wall Street Journal, he criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), arguing that she may have misled the public about her knowledge of detainee interrogation tactics that critics assert are torture.

As a senior adviser to President George W. Bush, Rove emerged at the center of numerous policy and political debates. He will be questioned tomorrow by Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy, who was named last year to examine whether any former senior Justice Department and White House officials lied or obstructed justice in connection with the dismissal of federal prosecutors in 2006.

Robert D. Luskin, a lawyer for Rove, declined comment this afternoon on the imminent interview. So did Tom Carson, a spokesman for Dannehy.

Dannehy mostly has operated in the shadows, quietly issuing subpoenas for documents through a federal grand jury in the District. But in recent weeks she has interviewed other former government aides, including White House political deputies Scott Jennings and Sarah Taylor. She also has reached out to representatives for former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and his chief of staff, Steve Bell, in an effort to determine whether New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias was removed for improper political reasons


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/14/AR2009051402816.html

[L. Coyote]

9. This explains the delay in getting public testimony before Congress. Rove is a subject

of a criminal inquiry, apparently!!

[democrank]

10. Karl Rove...

David Gregory`s favorite dancing liar.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. And lemme guess .... not an oath within miles.

[bleever]

13. But, Libby was convicted of lying to federal investigators

and obstructing justice, so if I'm not mistaken, Karl will be under the same strictures to be truthful.

Fingers crossed.

[struggle4progress]

15. Yeah, if he gets caught lying, I'd think he could be prosecuted for obstruction

[struggle4progress]

14. Prosecutor To Interview Rove Today, Sources Say

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 15, 2009

... Rove, a former senior aide to Bush, will be questioned by Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy, who was named last September to examine whether former Justice Department and White House officials lied or obstructed justice in connection with the dismissal of federal prosecutors in 2006.

Robert D. Luskin, a lawyer for Rove, declined to comment ...

Dannehy ... in recent weeks ... has interviewed other government aides, including former White House political deputies Scott Jennings and Sara Taylor ...

Rove is also tentatively scheduled to provide closed-door testimony to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and other members of the panel next month.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/14/AR2009051402816.html?hpid=topnews

[annabanana]

17. watching. . . waiting. . . watching. . . waiting. . .

lather rinse repeat