Lawrence O'Donnell: Update on Rove [Today! July 3rd! ROTFLMAO!]

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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.

[Ax]

O'Donnell (Larry and Rosie). Kennedy. McAuliffe. What's a good Irish-American lad to do?

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IMO, this info below, if true, does not sound like good news for someone, maybe a Lawrence O'Donnell type? I am wondering this because based on what he wrote and said, it seemed like Lawrence O'Donnell wanted people to think his latest "scoops" were being confirmed from testimony in the grand jury room...

[Dem site] Note: The following comments were sent to us by someone who has direct access to a major television news network:

"I have found out through my national television news sources that the PlameGate prosecutors have "informed" Karl Rove and his attorney that are now seeking a "new inquiry" into just how Valerie Plame's name came to be leaked and "also" that whatever initial deal and/or deals were broached between their offices are now going to have to be put on hold!

Also, Bob Novak is claiming that he was NOT told by Karl Rove, Valerie Plame's name!!!???!!! Of course this represents an interesting turn of events in this matter. This Sunday, news executives were scurrying about like chickens with their heads lopped off trying to figure out just "how to spin" this breaking major news story! Apparently, most of the network television news organizations were aware of Rove's involvement as late as Friday night but were told to put a "hold" on it?"

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What's a good Irish-American lad to do?

CLICK THIS THREAD.

[small voice in the wilderness]

LOL! We have Trolls who do a better job writing! O'Donnell is stammering all over himself, spitting out words faster than his brain can concoct a normal communication flow.

"Slow down, girl. You say Timmy has fallen into old man Adam's well and can't get out?!?"
Lassie O'Donnell. The Breaking News Collie.

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This is just so much BS. Lawrence O'D has no way to legally know what goes on in the grand jury duty room. If someone is leaking grand jury testimony to him then they are liable! (but then someone would have to contest that info and that's hard to do under the gag rules.)

I find it laughable that it would even be suggested that a new inquiry would spring from an ongoing jury. It just doesn't work that way.

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correction to my last post: "but then someone would have to contest that info IN THE MEDIA and that's hard to do under the gag rules."

[cyncooper]

Also, Bob Novak is claiming that he was NOT told by Karl Rove, Valerie Plame's name!!!???!!!

Oh, for pete's sake. I can never wrap my mind around the fact that these yahoos actually believe the bilge that is served up by dem talking points, but evidently there is a contingent that indeed does swallow it and is constantly surprised when whatever story they've been drooling over turns out yet again to be a lie.

LOL

[YaYa123]

Was just watching CNN, and anchorettte Joie Chen gave the same disclaimer at the end of her report: "(Rove's lawyer) has told CNN, that as late as last week, Rove was told by the prosecutor he was not a target of the investigation."

[Toskrin]

Rather, Rove insisted, he had only circulated information about Plame after it had appeared in Novak's column.

This may be true, and will form the crux of the Dim's attack on Rove. It will come out that Rove discussed with Time Magazine about Plame being with the CIA, the impication being that Rove is the leaker.

It will be quite a dance for the White House to explain the subtlety that the leak was to Novak, and that Rove was just confirming what was already public knowledge at the time.

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Re your post #64 and Timmie, Lassie, et al -- ROTFLMAO...

new scenario, based on O'Donnell's article:

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.

ROVE to his lawyer: "No! No! No, I say! Stop being a good lawyer 'trying to keep me out of jail'! I can talk! I MUST talk! Oh, O'Donnell -- I will talk!"

ROVE's Lawyer: "Should I call Lassie O'Donnell now? Or wait till they get the little girl out of the well?"

[YaYa123]

"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."

O'Donnell's wierd sentence structure makes this sentence hard to read, but as I understand it... O'Donnell is bragging about knowing the contents of Cooper's emails on the same day they are turned over to the prosecutor. If I were Fitzgerald, I'd be ticked off O'Donnell got to see them at the same time he did.

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PS The little girl is Timmy's sister, who fell into the well after Timmy.

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If I were Fitzgerald, I'd be ticked off O'Donnell got to see them at the same time he did.

I'm sure O'Donnell ticked off a lot of people this weekend! LOL...

[cyncooper]

Except we knew this over a year ago. Nobody's fooled, it's very plain Rove didn't "leak Plame's name" and this didn't gain traction, as O'Donnell himself has whined this morning.

This 3rd attempt to link the story to Rove has failed....again.

[cyncooper]

I agree with your interpretation of the sentence and also that the grand jury may wish to have a little chat O'Donnell. He practically begged for one, anyway.

Or perhaps they'll frustrate him by ignoring him.

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Yes, that seems to be the source of his greatest misery; there was no "traction" to this.

But, I really think he's now got some answering to do, and there will in fact be some "traction," though not in the way he expected. Just my guess, and my own personal prediction there.

[cyncooper]

though not in the way he expected

That would be sweet.

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Several Dem sites are not even mentioning his update anymore. Seems the photo on the right sums it all up...

[Wolfstar]

Are they trying to cause a mini-scandal on the verge of the SCOTUS fight, do they really know something, are they trying to protect someone and deflect attention to the hated Rove, or are they clueless...

It seems to me all of the above qualifies as the same old thing from the Dims and their fellow leftists. :-)

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Update -- the newest Dem complaint about Rove is posted HERE.

I wonder if Lawrence O"Donnell will write about that, too.