MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
#0MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/24/06 at 11:37pm
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CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC ANCHOR: Rove's attorneys are waiting for a decision from Fitzgerald on whether Rove will be charged or cleared.
So the question now is, what's the procedure for deciding if a crime has been committed? Hardball correspondent David Shuster has been talking with former federal prosecutors who were once in a similar position and he has this report.
DAVID SHUSTER, MSNBC CORRESPONDENT. (voiceover): It was exactly four weeks ago today when Presidential advisor Karl Rove testified for the fifth time in the CIA leak investigation. 28 days later, the man known as Bush's brain still has not been cleared. Rove's lawyers say they've heard nothing from prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and believe Rove remains under investigation for testimony related to a conversation with Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper about CIA operative Valerie Wilson.
Fitzgerald's office refuses to comment. But former federal prosecutors describe the following procedure when considering an indictment: First, a prosecution team would review the evidence. Then, they would examine case law on the relevant criminal statutes. And finally, the prosecutors would decide whether a reasonable jury would convict at trial.
If prosecutors believe they would win a conviction, then they would prepare to seek a grand jury indictment.
One former federal prosecutor says the timing now for Rove is not in his favor.
DAVID SCHERTLER, former federal prosecutor: "If Patrick Fitzgerald had in fact reached a decision not to indict, he would have announced that and he would have told Karl Rove and his attorneys. The fact that he hasn't announced it makes you believe that he might be headed towards an indictment and might be tightening up all the loose ends at this point in anticipation of presenting the indictment."
Prosecutors say silence in CIA leak case may signal Rove indictment coming
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#1re: MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/24/06 at 11:41pm"Silence is golden!"
#2re: MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/25/06 at 12:21amThey say Rove ratted on Cheney. Now Fitzgerald can make Cheney testify UNDER OATH!!!
#3re: MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/25/06 at 12:25am
Hehehe.
Even if this takes some more time, it is worth waiting for.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#4re: MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/25/06 at 12:29amThe house of cards will fall!
#5re: MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/25/06 at 11:14am
Someone's saying
"Grrrrrrrr..."
#6msnbc: the foil tightens
Posted: 5/25/06 at 11:19ami wonder if that's from the fundraising speech he gave where after being interrupted by "spontaneous" applause one too many times for his taste dickie growled at the crowd, "ya wanna hear the speech or not?"
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#7MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/25/06 at 11:22amNo, I think it was when he was told his next approval rating would probably be in the single digits.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#8MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/25/06 at 11:24amI'll grant him this, he looks almost life-like.
#9msnbc: the foil tightens
Posted: 5/25/06 at 11:36amlike dick cheney cares about approval ratings. dick cheney eats pollsters for breakfast. literally. with strawberry jam.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#10MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/25/06 at 12:18pm
Prediction: Cheney will resign for "health reasons" and die in disgrace like Spiro Agnew, pardoned by Bush in a final futile gesture that pushes the disgraced, corrupt Republican Congress to threaten to impeach him like they did to Nixon.
Then Bush will resign and Condi will serve out the rest of his term because every other Republican will be in jail or under indictment.
Unlike Agney, Cheney will die rich, having siphoned oil dollars out of the pockets of working Americans.
History will peg Dick Cheney as the neo-con con-man who hoodwinked a 2-term idiot president into nearly destroying the Constitution, just so that a lot of oil and munitions investors (American and Arab alike) could get richer quicker.
#11msnbc: the foil tightens
Posted: 5/25/06 at 1:07pmgiven the accuracy of past predictions, i'd say this pretty much guarantees that cheney will not resign or face any charges.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#12MSNBC: The Noose Tightens Around KARL ROVE's Neck
Posted: 5/25/06 at 2:38pm
My predictions are borne out of hope for a better world.
Some of them come true in this life; some come true in the next.
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