AP: Rove Won't Be Indicted Today; WH Fears Cheney Aide Libby May Be

[Hissyspit]

Associated Press Version. There's a dig at Scott McClellan:

Rove Won't Be Indicted Today; White House Fears Top Cheney Aide Libby May Be

By John Solomon
Published: Oct 28, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) - Karl Rove won't be indicted Friday as prosecutors and his lawyers try to resolve questions in the CIA leak investigation, two people close to Rove told The Associated Press. The White House still braced for an indictment against another top aide.

In discussions Thursday, Rove's lawyer was told by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's office that investigators had not completed their investigation into Rove's conduct in the case and they would continue investigating, the people said, speaking only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy.

Rove's lawyers were told there still were matters to resolve before the prosecutor "decides what he is going to do, so Mr. Rove will not be indicted today," one of the people said.

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Some lawyers have raised the specter of broader conspiracy charges as well. When the investigation began two years ago, a White House spokesman checked with Rove and Libby, then assured the public that neither was involved in leaking Plame's identity.

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[Mr_Spock]

1. The more times I hear Rove not indicted, the more pissed I get at the

lead up to this thing. We always knew Libby was toast. Where's the news in this? I'm depressed.

[elehhhhna]

2. Not indicted TODAY.

Let Rove be Rove--he's amoral and could spill on Cheney & Il Stupido. I predicted ages ago that Rove would do whatever and throw over whomever to come out of this looking like a (self-styled/self-spun)"hero".

Watch for it. Have faith in justice.

[Mr_Spock]

3. Heck, I've always been willing to wait. Hard to ignore all the "Fitzmas"

talk here though. I still can't get over the childishness of this whole indoctrination of a person before anyone was even indicted. I thought we were grown-ups here :(

[PRETZEL]

4. guess there's good and bad in this,

the good is that the assumption that can be fairly easily made is that Fitzgerald has asked and apparently has been given approval to continue the investigation. does it mean that he has convinced the presiding judge that there is sufficient evidence in other aspects of the investigation that appeared to have arisen out of the initial investigation (ie. the nature of the forged doc's, the possible criminal charges arising out of the connection of Ms. Plame to Brewster-Jennings) that warrants a continuation.

the bad is that Mr. Fitzgerald may have to start over with a new grand jury. He'll have to present the evidence anew and that will unfortunately take time.