Rove legal team makes contingency plans as grand jury nears end

[sabra]

http://www.13wham.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=BB384364-E0D8-4393-8CB5-08477E79765A

Rove legal team makes contingency plans as grand jury nears end

WASHINGTON (AP) - Karl Rove's lawyers are boning up just in case he's indicted in the C-I-A leak investigation.

The presidential aide's legal team has made contingency plans to defend him in both court and in public. They've consulted with former Justice Department official Mark Corallo and G-O-P strategist Ed Gillespie.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with Rove lawyer Robert Luskin at a private law firm Tuesday, heightening White House fears for Rove's future. Fitzgerald also met a presiding judge Wednesday.

[Loonman]

1. Slimy Rove will cut an immunity deal

Just you watch.

[wtmusic]

4. If Cheney ends up in the pokey and * is impeached

that's fine by me

[The Judged]

26. Don't underestimate Daddy's friends protecting junior.

Watch out for the magic bullets.

[saigon68]

2. Maybe FAT BOY will be going down

FUCKING CHICKEN HAWK DRAFT DODGER

[fasttense]

3. He'll turn over on bush* to save his hide. n/t

[TexasLawyer]

9. He'll dirty-bomb Boston

before that happens. Distraction! Martial law! Look over there!

Rove is Rove, and when he's in trouble he will Rove like he's never Roved before.

[Demeter]

5. Maybe He Ought To Add Some Lawyers to the Mix

this isn't a political problem any more, it's a criminal one.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. NY Daily News: Buzz about a Karl plea as probers close in

Thanks to cal04, who posted this article in GD:

Buzz about a Karl plea as probers close in
BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK, KENNETH R. BAZINET and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU


....In the closing hours of the grand jury probe, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald paid a visit yesterday to Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, prompting speculation that a plea bargain could be in the works for the deputy White House chief of staff.

It was the latest of several one-on-one meetings between Fitzgerald and Luskin, the Daily News has learned.

Investigators also turned up at the White House for yet another round of questions for Rove's subordinates....

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As the investigation moved toward its high-stakes finale, Rove has exhibited several mood swings....

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The News learned that Rove's lawyers hope to persuade Fitzgerald that inconsistencies in his grand jury testimony were because of poor recollections, not attempts at obstruction....


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/359712p-306469c.html

[texpatriot2004]

7. Poor recollections won't cut it KKKarl, maybe a trip to Gitmo would

help jog your memory.

[goforit]

8. Can some one tell me how a plea bargain will help Rove.

[Elidor]

10. As I understand it, it goes like this

Fitzgerald says, I have an indictment with your name on it. You can plead guilty to this one, or I can go back to the grand jury and get several more for you, if you want to play it that way.

[OneForLuck]

11. No matter what happens...

he's finished... & that's all I really care about

[Inland]

12. other contingency plans: Nigerian passport, soap on a rope. nt

[PhilipShore]

13. Fox News: Patrick Fitzgerald met with Rove attorney Robert Luskin

Fox News
Thursday, October 27, 2005

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173706,00.html

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald met with Rove attorney Robert Luskin at a private law firm office Tuesday, heightening White House fears for Rove's future.

[rodeodance]

14. We read this Tuesday night here on DU.

[cal04]

15. Rove, Libby Assemble Team to Handle Possible CIA Leak Indictments

Rove, Libby Assemble Team to Handle Possible CIA Leak Indictments

The White House, district court officials and two possible targets of the CIA leak investigation were making preparations yesterday for the possible announcement of indictments by special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald today, according to several sources familiar with the investigation.

Two sources said I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, was shopping for a white-collar criminal lawyer and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove began assembling a public relations team in the event they are indicted.

At the White House, aides scrambled to put the finishing touches on a political strategy to respond to the fallout from any criminal charges, including the likelihood of staff changes. A Republican consultant with close White House ties said Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. had canceled at least two trips in the past week and had met with Bush over the weekend to focus on how to react to the grand jury's decisions. "These will be very, very dark days for the White House," the consultant quoted Card as saying.


The special counsel set out in late 2003 to investigate whether anyone in the Bush administration illegally disclosed the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame as part of an effort to discredit her husband, outspoken Iraq war critic and former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.But officials close to Rove and Libby said the two high-level aides seem more concerned about being charged with making false statements to the grand jury, an area in which Fitzgerald has shown great interest as the case comes to a close. People close to Rove said the senior Bush strategist and his legal team have worked assiduously in the past week to convince Fitzgerald that Rove did not mislead the grand jury.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/27/AR2005102702242.html

[u2spirit]

16. Jesus

If I ever get indicted, I'll hire a PR firm. Rove is maybe the slimiest prick on the planet. Everything is a campaign to these bastards. They will treat the trial like an election.

[shraby]

17. This article is almost diametrically opposed to

what the NYT has said. Apparently nobody knows what Fitzgerald is going to do.

[Pirate Smile]

18. Courthouse staff is getting prepared:

"At the U.S. District courthouse on Constitution Avenue, where Fitzgerald will meet with the grand jury for what is expected to be the final time, there was a rush of activity. Court staff made preparations to quickly produce scores of copies of documents for waiting reporters."

[goforit]

19. I'll be shocked if Rove gets away w/ Bloody murder again.

[rodeodance]

20. this reads like an 'old' article. Not like the NYTimes.

[psychopomp]

21. >Feet tapping in anticipation

"Very, very dark days for the White House..."
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

What is bad for the White House (as it is) is good for the nation!

[yellowcanine]

22. Contingency Plans? Is Rove planning to flee to another country? Where

would he go?

[The Judged]

23. If the contingency plan is to rat on all the Neo-cons, then O.K.

For the sake of the country, I'd definitely let Rove remain free, but banned from participation of government at all levels, in return for putting away those guilty Neo-cons forever.

I do mean the whole network of them, not just the 20 most obvious ones.

[lovuian]

24. Rove will testify and testify and testify!!! Whats Bush going to do

keep a man whose is under tremendous suspicion in the White House or fire him??? this puts Bush in the hot seat if Karl isn't indicted!!!

[The Judged]

25. Karl already wrote the script for the next few years, he has time to kill.

He'll only need to be available to give his goons orders, here and there, in order to stifle freedom, thwart democracy, and rig elections.