How confident are you that Rove will be indicted?

[sabra]

[Dora]

1. kick to prevent sinkage n/t

[Berserker]

27. Judging by the half smirk

when he walked to his car after the hearings today. I would predict he's up a proverbial tributary without the proper means of locomotion.

[ewagner]

2. kick

interesting results coming up here....

[AX10]

3. kick

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. The "Popular Theory"

"Fitzgerald wouldn't have taken the investigation this far if he had nothing, only to turn in a report that showed no evidence of wrong-doing."

OR...

To put it in good ol' boy fake Texan Connecticut Cowboy terms, "Well, Stretch, I don' think he wunna dun it if 'n that dog wunnt ready to HUNT."

[porphyrian]

5. Unfortunately, "indicted" doesn't equal "convicted" in this case. - n/t

[sabra]

6. true true... one step @ a time.

peace.

[David Zephyr]

7. I doubt that Rove will be indicted.

Republican prosecutor who works for the Justice Department that is run by Alberto Gonzales who reports directly to George Bush?

[AlinPA]

11. I agree with you. Add he was appointed by a republican. n/t

[emulatorloo]

18. who calls him "the original Untouchable"

<snip>

"I thought, 'He is the original Untouchable,' " Peter Fitzgerald says. "You could just see it in his eyes that he was a straight shooter. There were no levers that anyone had over him. He had no desire to become a partner in a private law firm. He has no interest in electoral politics. He wanted to be a prosecutor."

<snip>

link below in my Fitz is not a republican post

[emulatorloo]

17. HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO POST THAT FITZ IS NOT A REPUBLICAN

Sorry for yelling, but it is getting tiresome

washington post - read the whole article while you are there. . .it is good!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55560-2005Feb1?language=printer

<snip>

Fitzgerald is careful to be apolitical in his targets and his public life alike. He registered to vote as an Independent in New York, only to discover, when he began receiving fundraising calls, that Independent was a political party. He re-registered with no affiliation, as he did later in Chicago.

He spit fire last year when reporters asked whether the racketeering indictment of Muhammad Hamid Khalil Salah, a fundraiser for the Islamic militant group Hamas, was timed to boost President Bush's reelection campaign. The case was trumpeted first by Attorney General John Ashcroft.

"I am not running for an election. I'm not part of a political party," Fitzgerald said at the time. "The election is irrelevant to this case. The reason we brought this case now is we're ready to proceed."

,snip

[AlinPA]

24. I have been calling him a republican for some time. I did not know about

his re-registering with "no affiliation". OK, I feel better about him now, but dammit I'm still suspicious why they (admin) would allow such a strong prosecutor to be appointed. (Hubris?) I still have trouble how long this is taking. I'll wait and see. Things may be looking up; Rove was in there for 4 hours.

[emulatorloo]

26. I think they made a mistake. . .

it isn't like they haven't screwed up other times. . .

:hi:

[mshasta]

19. same here..

this guys are the master minds of getting everything the way they wanted…and for Roves faces today he was extremely happy to my taste..

[MrModerate]

8. Naaah. They'd be quivering more . . .

Or shutting Fitzgerald down, if they thought he'd get 'em.

[AndyTiedye]

9. Would They Do Another MIHOP to Prevent It?

:scared:

[davidinalameda]

10. cautiously optimistic

[Glenda]

12. We're due one - so I'm voting yes on this poll n/t

[SmokingJacket]

13. Just 51%.

These people have wriggled out of so much...

Yet, I am an optimist (just barely).

[sabra]

14. isn't that a mandate? :-)

[_dynamicdems]

15. Slippery SOB

Rove is one pretty slippery slug, but I think he will be indicted. It wouldn't surprise me to see the angry right-wingers withdraw support of Rove to teach Bush a lesson.

[sabra]

16. hoping you're right. welcome to DU, btw!

[_dynamicdems]

29. Thanks for the welcome!

[elfin]

20. Pessimistic here

Rove had too long before his final appearance to get his "story" straight. Need to know what Judy told him to say either after she got out or through one of his emissaries on a visit ala Bolton.

[Perky]

21. Conspiracy; obstruction; perjury; misuse of classified data

but not the outing of Plame.


THat is easily ten years in the Pokey.

Bush has got to let him go... but if he does not come to his aid I think he is going to flip Cheney.

Rove is Bush's Pal but Cheney is pulling the strings. It's going to get very interesting.


Cheney will not resign... It is not in his character. Is he indictable? here comes the next great debate.

[Justice Is Comin]

22. The ominous tip off

was Fitzgerald saying this time when he came to the grand jury there was no guarantee that he would not be indicted. And that everything he stated could be used against him.

Wheww, I wouldn't want that little post-it on my desk from a special prosecutor. I think the rosey cheek bastard is going to be having a change in his menu.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

25. Yes, but will there be two kinds of fruit or whatever...

[sabra]

23. kick

[NoBushSpokenHere]

28. "Other"

Just because I could....and because I wanted to vote and visually see my vote count :)