Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk Myself to Death: Rove Indictment Watch

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Rove Indictment Watch

This will be quick because I'm on my way out. But the scuttlebutt seems to be that Fitzgerald's indictment of Karl Rove is coming closer and closer. Jason Leopold at truthout says it's a done deal:

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.

During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.

We don't know who Leopold's sources are, of course, but Leopold himself is former LA bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires. Still, in the single report, the amount of time Fitzgerald spent with Rove's representatives is identified alternately as "more than half a day Friday," "for about 15 hours," and "the entire day." Different numbers from different sources that Leopold chose not to merge together? Maybe. But it also offers an uncomfortable implication of sloppiness. Yesterday, Leopold reported that Rove told the Prez he would be indicted and would resign immediately when it happened.

No other news sources are reporting this at this point, so we should maybe keep it in the realm of rumor for the moment. Yesterday morning (via Think Progress), Chris Matthews told Don Imus about speculation that an indictment could even have come on Friday:

Well, it could be today. It could be next week. Everybody is buzzing about when or if. It’s a big if, big when.

We're already into Saturday evening. If there's an indictment, does it have to come during business hours? Will the federal marshals come to pick up Rove on Mother's Day?

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