Karl Rove Will Be Indicted
by Charles Coughlin
It’s long overdue for Karl Rove to go to prison. He should have at least been indicted on the same day as Scooter Libby, and the two of them deserved to be indicted years earlier. Both Rove and Libby have admitted that they leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity to the press. Exposing a CIA agent’s identity is an act of treason. This action was taken by the neocons to punish Ms. Plame’s husband, Joe Wilson, who released a report that undermined the neocon case for a war on Iraq.
Contrary to the spin from various talk show hosts, Ms. Plame was involved in a serious, ongoing CIA operation. She headed a fictitious company that was a front for intelligence gathering. The identity of this company was also exposed to the media. Agents working for her may have been arrested, tortured or killed. Naturally the neocons in DC won’t tell us the full extent of the damage done. They’ll cover that up for as long as they can.
A recent news article reports “Just as the news broke Wednesday about Scott McClellan resigning as White House press secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove shedding some of his policy duties, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury hearing evidence in the CIA leak case and introduced additional evidence against Rove, attorneys and other US officials close to the investigation said. The grand jury session in federal court in Washington, DC, sources close to the case said, was the first time this year that Fitzgerald told the jurors that he would soon present them with a list of criminal charges he intends to file against Rove in hopes of having the grand jury return a multi-count indictment against Rove…. Fitzgerald is said to have introduced more evidence Wednesday alleging Rove lied to FBI investigators and the grand jury when he was questioned about how he found out that Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the CIA and whether he shared that information with the media, attorneys close to the case said. Fitzgerald told the grand jury that Rove lied to investigators and the prosecutor eight out of the nine times he was questioned about the leak and also tried to cover-up his role in disseminating Plame Wilson’s CIA status to at least two reporters. Additionally, an FBI investigator reread to jurors testimony from other witnesses in the case that purportedly implicates Rove in playing a role in the leak and the campaign to discredit Plame Wilson’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose criticism of the Bush administration’s pre-war Iraq intelligence lead to his wife being unmasked as a covert CIA operative.”
Even though most political pundits gave up any hope that Rove would be indicted when nothing happened last year after the Libby indictment, it looks virtually certain now that justice has caught up with Karl Rove. Rove’s recent “replacement” by Joel Kaplan may be a preemptive move by the Bush regime in preparation for Rove going to jail.