White House Official: "Everybody just wants this week over"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

White House on edge

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9819536/

The grand jury, whose term expires Friday, is scheduled for a session today. Before a vote on an indictment, prosecutors typically leave the room so jurors can deliberate in private and ask that the jury alert them when it has reached a decision.

Unlike the jury in a criminal trial, grand jurors are not weighing proof of guilt or innocence. They decide whether there is probable cause to charge someone with a crime, and they must agree unanimously to indict. The prosecutor could seek to seal any indictments until he announces the charges. Officials described a White House on edge. "Everybody just wants this week over," said one official.

The key figures in the probe, including Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Libby, attended staff meetings and planned President Bush's next political and policy moves. Others sat nervously at their desks, fielding calls from reporters and insisting they were in the dark about what the next 24 hours would bring.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan insisted this storm will soon pass. But officials are bracing for the kind of political tsunami that swamped Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan in their second terms and could change the course of this presidency. It is not clear what charges Fitzgerald will seek, if any. After setting out on his original investigation, he won explicit authority to also consider perjury and other crimes government officials might have committed during the nearly two-year-long investigation. Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn declined to comment.

[KarenS]

1. they want it over but I intend to savor every moment of it!! n/t

[Leftest]

2. I hope

this ends up validating the old adage: "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" :)


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[ms liberty]

3. God yes! Welcome to DU! n/t

[Javaman]

4. If that's the case, let's hope Fitz gets an extension to the grand jury!!!

I think all the head in the white house would simultaneously explode.

Now that's good TV.

:popcorn:

[gratuitous]

5. Oh, let's just get it over with already!

Those poor, poor men! Can you just imagine what it must be like, sitting in your office, wondering if you're going to be spending a weekend in jail? And all for just doing your job. It must be very stressful, you know. I just feel so, so, so, very, very, ver--

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

{Wipes away tear} Nope, I knew I couldn't type that and keep a straight face!

:rofl: