Wassamatta Michael? Unable to incite any deadly riots this week?
Posted on 10/16/2005 1:11:07 AM PDT by RWR8189
Oct. 24, 2005 issue - When Karl Rove emerged after four grueling hours before a federal grand jury in Washington last Friday, his lawyer Robert Luskin made one more attempt to figure out just where his client stood. He approached special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald outside the hearing room and asked if Rove's fortunes had changed in the two-year-old inquiry of who leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame. But Fitzgerald, ever tight-lipped, wasn't giving anything up. He curtly told the lawyer that "no decisions" had been made, Luskin says.
That left Luskin, the brainy battle-tested Washington litigator hired to represent the most powerful of the president's men, in a bind. All over Washington, impatient reporters were waiting to be fed. So Luskin—whose shaved head, gold earring and Ducati Monster motorcycle make him something of an odd duck among Washington's A-list attorneys—did what any savvy trial lawyer would do: he tried to spin Fitzgerald's nonanswer to Rove's advantage. In a carefully worded statement, Luskin said, "The special prosecutor has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation." The part he glided over: Fitzgerald hadn't ruled out indicting Rove, either.
It was Rove's fourth appearance before the grand jury, and will almost certainly be his last. The investigation expires at the end of the month, and Fitzgerald is widely expected to announce his decisions in the next two weeks. Republicans fear that Fitzgerald may end up charging a number of senior White House aides, possibly including Rove and Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, with disclosing classified information or making false statements. (Rove and Libby deny any wrongdoing.)
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waste of ink
Michael Isikoff is not to be trusted. Why is he still employeed, even CBS dumped (under duress) Rather.
Wait a minute. I thought Karl Rove WAS the Consigliere.
These people make my hair hurt.
FIRST: Pflame was not undercover. Pflame was not an undercover operative. Pflame was a domestic, deskbound, non-undercover non-operative. Therefore, the only crime to be prosecuted here is the charge of "Pimping by Spouse," committed by Joe Wilson.
SECOND: Grand Juries, where I come from anyway, are by law secret. How is anyone supposed to comment on it?
THIRD: Mr. Isikoff, defend your use of the word "grueling." I'll wait....
"Ah - HAA!" is the only thing Isikoff left out.
woofie is exactly right - "waste of ink"
Isikoff is a liar as he has proved with the "Koran in the toilet story" he wrote about Gitmo and the "Bill & Monica" story he spiked until Drudge outed him.
Name them Michael.
I'm under the impression you have to be told prior to being required to testify before a grand jury that you are a potential target beyond being a witness for the investigation.
Wassamatta Michael? Unable to incite any deadly riots this week?
He looks like the sneering elitist from hell.
Michael couldn't care less.
Ha! IzzY, no clue! They were discussing Rove's book, and wheather Larry King would star in the movie!!!
Isikoff is , and has been for many years, bad news for any conservative politician. He is as liberal as can be, and he writes with a poison pen. He should have been fired by Newsweek for holding the story on Bubba Clinton and the sex kitten, but he wasn't!! Says a lot about his employers, doesn't it?? He is a P.O.S. writer, and continues to be totally inept in his scribes!! Remember the lies he wrote about the koran? How many more have to die before this a**hole gets fired?
Isikoff gives me the creeps.
Hot shot investigative reporter Isikoff is reduced to writing a style critique of Rove's lawyer?
He has to write something. It's bait so Chrissy will give him face time.
Isikoff = POS
Until Isikoff, Fred Barnes, and Mort Kondrake get rid of their stuttering problems, I think they should be banned from television all together. YIKES! They drive me crazy
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