Karl Rove Back In Hot Seat

Rove Called Again to Testify in Front of Grand Jury- A New Grand Jury This Time.

Will This Lead to Criminal Charges? I Can Only Hope So...

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Rove reportedly denies lying about CIA leak
By Jim VandeHei
The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told a federal grand jury Wednesday that he did not provide false statements in the CIA leak case, testifying for more than three hours before leaving a federal courthouse unsure whether he would be indicted, according to a source close to the presidential aide.

In his fifth appearance before the grand jury, Rove testified that it would have been foolish for him to knowingly mislead investigators about his role in the disclosure of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame to the media, the source said. His grand-jury appearance, which was kept secret even from Rove's closest White House colleagues until shortly before he went to court Wednesday, suggests that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald remains keenly interested in Rove's role in the case.

Rove for the first time partly waived his attorney-client privilege to detail conversations he had with his attorney, Robert Luskin, about the leak and his knowledge of it, the source said.
Rove's testimony focused almost exclusively on his conversation about Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in 2003 and whether Rove later tried to conceal it, the source said. Rove testified, in essence, that "it would have been a suicide mission" to "deliberately lie" about his conversation with Cooper because he knew beforehand that it eventually would be revealed, the source said. Lawyers involved in the case said Wednesday that they expect a decision on Rove's fate soon.


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