So, What's Your Take on Rove?
My feeling is that he's in a world of trouble, but if things stay the same he'll be okay (and by "okay," I mean that he'll keep his position and not become radioactive to any candidate he works for).
The real question regards the grand jury testimony. If only we had Ken Star's team to feed Susan Schmidt all the juicy good stuff! Perhaps Isikoff will get something out of there in the coming weeks; so far, he's the only one who has gotten anything out of the investigation, but his source is probably with Time and not the prosecutor. The bottom line though is that testimony was given back when Rove thought Cooper was going to carry his water and keep his silence; could there be a little bit of perjury in there?
My prediction is that this story still has a massive twist yet to reveal itself. Perhaps Miller was the one who carried Plame's name from the Pentagon to the White House in the first place; maybe Rove and Novak set up a cover story which has been discovered as false; maybe John Bolton is the one who leaked the name (wouldn't that be fun?).
So what's your take? I say this continues to be a major problem, and the only thing capable of knocking it out of the press (provided there are continuing revelations) is the Supreme Court. And even that might not be enough if more damning info is released on Rove.
I for one will anxiously await Fitzgerald's findings; it may be until then before we really know what the hell happened here.
The real question regards the grand jury testimony. If only we had Ken Star's team to feed Susan Schmidt all the juicy good stuff! Perhaps Isikoff will get something out of there in the coming weeks; so far, he's the only one who has gotten anything out of the investigation, but his source is probably with Time and not the prosecutor. The bottom line though is that testimony was given back when Rove thought Cooper was going to carry his water and keep his silence; could there be a little bit of perjury in there?
My prediction is that this story still has a massive twist yet to reveal itself. Perhaps Miller was the one who carried Plame's name from the Pentagon to the White House in the first place; maybe Rove and Novak set up a cover story which has been discovered as false; maybe John Bolton is the one who leaked the name (wouldn't that be fun?).
So what's your take? I say this continues to be a major problem, and the only thing capable of knocking it out of the press (provided there are continuing revelations) is the Supreme Court. And even that might not be enough if more damning info is released on Rove.
I for one will anxiously await Fitzgerald's findings; it may be until then before we really know what the hell happened here.
posted by Mike D at
7/13/2005 05:41:00 PM
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I think Rove looks a little bit like a turtle quite frankly. But yeah, I think he's going to keep his position and influence unless something else surfaces that implicates him even further in this case. On another note, I think Rehnquist is just being funny now and he's not going to retire until everyone stops making predictions about when he'll retire.
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Brent, at 7/13/2005 10:38:00 PM
Or at least until he dies.
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Mike D, at 7/14/2005 09:56:00 AM
I think Brent is correct, Rehnquist is just messing with us all now. Frankly, if I had known he had such a wicked and twisted sense of humor I would have liked him all along. It certainly explains some of his rulings...like Bush v. Gore for example.
If the Dems don't screw it up somehow (and that is a BIG if) I say Rove is going down. Or at least leaving the White House for a HUGE salary elsewhere.
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DelaBlogger, at 7/14/2005 10:38:00 AM
I've been reading the Media Matters for America website. It's been keeping my blood pressure up with tales of misstatements by the press on the Rove-Plame case (curiously in line with RNC talking points). (Not really, my blood pressure's on the low side). But my one hope is that the prosecutor really cares about national security, and is not swayed by public opinion, which is in turn being swayed by these errant media reports.
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Shadow, at 7/16/2005 02:03:00 PM
I think it's pretty clear that whatever else you think of this whole story, the prosecutor has been nothing but serious. It's pretty clear he's going to be driven by the facts, not the RNC talking points (and please, people, Wilson never said that Cheney sent him to Niger!)
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Mike D, at 7/16/2005 02:25:00 PM
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