The Song of the Canary
Mar 27th, 2006 at 1:41 pm by Susie
Oh, my, my, this is getting interesting. Sing, Karl, sing:
Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and special adviser to President George W. Bush, has recently been providing information to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the ongoing CIA leak investigation, sources close to the investigation say.
According to several Pentagon sources close to Rove and others familiar with the inquiry, Bush’s senior adviser tipped off Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to information that led to the recent “discovery” of 250 pages of missing email from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Rove has been in the crosshairs of Fitzgerald’s investigation into the outing of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson for what some believe to be retaliation against her husband, former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon, Joseph Wilson. Wilson had been an ardent critic of pre-war Iraq intelligence.
While these sources did not provide any details regarding what type of arrangements Rove’s attorney Robert Luskin may have made with the special prosecutor’s office, if any, they were able to provide some information regarding what Rove imparted to Fitzgerald’s team. The individuals declined to go on the record out of concern for their jobs.
According to one source close to the case, Rove is providing information on deleted emails, erased hard drives and other types of obstruction by staff and other officials in the Vice President’s office. Pentagon sources close to Rove confirmed this account.
UPDATE: Steve Clemons has a source who also confirms this.
Throw Cheney from the train!
No honor among thieves, apparently.
There was a lot of speculation that it was Rumsfeld who was going to be thrown to the wolves, but it seems that it won’t be so.
Does history really repeat itself? Has Rove decided that Cheney must go the way of Spiro Agnew?
If so, a new VP will need to be appointed. A while back, the buzz was for Condi, but I think she has lost momentum. McCain might be a possibility, but he lacks the faith of the true Dubyatologist.
What Beltway insider of today shows the bipartisan football-playing Warren-Commission-membership credentials of Gerald Ford?
My guess is that they will pick Lieberman. It would have the double virtue of looking bipartisan whilst extricating him from a nasty election battle.
Say hello to the next president when Dubya decides to spend more time with his family. (Dante couldn’t think up a better punishment!)
I well remember that day in August 1974 when we temporarily abandoned our jazz jam session to run out to my car and listen to HREF=”http://www.watergate.info/nixon/resignation-speech.shtml”>Nixon’s speech on the radio.
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose!
Sorry about the HTML errors. It would be nice if the comments here had a “preview” function like many other sites have. The amount of HTML code permissable in comments is wildly variable from site to site.
Nixon’s speech is found here: http://www.watergate.info/nixon/resignation-speech.shtml
You will have to cut and paste to access it.
Rove will drop a dime on anybody to save his skanky waste of a human ass.
FBI now reports directly to the CIA, from Congress’ order.
Why panic?