I hereby invoke the "Chewbacca Defense". "Look at the monkey!"
Posted on 07/03/2005 10:14:41 AM PDT by summer
Lawrence O'Donnell: Update on Rove
Lawrence O'Donnell 2 hours, 22 minutes ago
On Friday, I broke the story that the e-mails that Time turned over to the prosecutor that day reveal that Karl Rove is the source Matt Cooper is protecting. That provoked Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, to interrupt his holiday weekend to do a little defense work with Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times.
On Saturday, Luskin decided to reveal that Rove did have at least one conversation with Cooper, but Luskin told the Times he would not “characterize the substance of the conversation.” Luskin claimed that the prosecutor “asked us not to talk about what Karl has had to say.” This is highly unlikely. Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room. Rove can tell us word-for-word what he said to the grand jury and would if he thought it would help him. And notice that Luskin just did reveal part of Rove’s grand jury testimony, the fact that he had a conversation with Cooper. Rove would not let me get one day of traction on this story if he could stop me. If what I have reported is not true, if Karl Rove is not Matt Cooper’s source, Rove could prove that instantly by telling us what he told the grand jury. Nothing prevents him from doing that, except a good lawyer who is trying to keep him out of jail.
And it's quite telling I think, for O'Donnell to mention "traction for his story". Obviously, "traction" to malign Rove is what is on his mind.
Less than an hour ago, I watched a replay of O'Donnell on The McLaughlin Group. O'Donnell said himself he didn't think Rove could be prosecuted for outting an operative, rather he thinks Fitzgerald is going after Rove on perjury charges.
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As did I. He wondered aloud how many more minutes Rove had to continue in his position. He got a laugh out of me.
I hereby invoke the "Chewbacca Defense". "Look at the monkey!"
Dear God, is he posting this stuff from an insane asylum?
I'm all over that rumor! Glad to help!
I invite others who know about this to comment on this thread. Perhaps they could ask around on other forums and blogs as well. Couldn't hurt, could it?
On other boards they already have Rove impeached, or no, wait, Bush, Ooooh, I F&$(*%$ hate the all SOOO BAD!!!
He needs a bunny on his head, with a pancake on its head.
Yeah, Larry, they decided to "reveal" this for the umpteenth time.
Here's a liberal column from over a year ago:
March 8, 2004
President Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, told the FBI in an interview last October that he circulated and discussed damaging information regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame with others in the White House, outside political consultants, and journalists, according to a government official and an attorney familiar with the ongoing special counsel's investigation of the matter.
But Rove also adamantly insisted to the FBI that he was not the administration official who leaked the information that Plame was a covert CIA operative to conservative columnist Robert Novak last July. Rather, Rove insisted, he had only circulated information about Plame after it had appeared in Novak's column. He also told the FBI, the same sources said, that circulating the information was a legitimate means to counter what he claimed was politically motivated criticism of the Bush administration by Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
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The characterizations in the 2004 citation are the lefty pov, but the bare facts are what we've long known and O'Donnell (and Newsweek) provided nothing new.
The 2004 column goes on to darkly mention Scooter Libby who has long since been cleared after he, like Rove, signed confidentiality waivers and reporters were compelled (and they fought it every step of the way) to admit Libby was not the source and you can bet that the reporters that have testified so far have cleared Rove, as well.
Thank you very much for the ping.
If I was Rove I would sue O'Donnell for slander, defamation of character and now it seems libel.
Maybe under a law suit the leaker's name - who I would wager is a democrat - would come out.
On the other hand, Old Lar, if Rove has signed a confidentiality waiver (he has), what's stopping Matt Cooper from testifying about Rove being "the source"?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
I'll have to go with the "You're a Creepy Liar", Larry.
Trust me, he doesn't have a point. But you're right about the padded room.
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Just doing my part.
Does anybody know if he's hooked up with Maureen Dowd yet? Those two seem like a match made in (hell).
Lawrence O'Donnell of the Dan Rather, Fake but Accurate School of Journalism.
O'Donnell should go back to being head-writer for The West Wing.
-PJ
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