Attorney: Rove Will Cooperate With DOJ Probes
By Susie Madrak Tuesday Feb 03, 2009 5:30amMurray Waas reports that Rove is apparently being cooperative with investigators in both the U.S. attorneys case and the Gov. Don Siegalman case:
Karl Rove will cooperate with a federal criminal inquiry underway into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys and has already spoken to investigators in a separate, internal DOJ investigation into the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, his attorney said in an interview.
Rove previously refused to cooperate with an earlier Justice Department inquiry into the firings. The Justice Department's Inspector General and its Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) said in a report released last September detailing their earlier probe of the firings of the U.S. attorneys that their investigation was severely "hindered" by the refusal by Rove and other senior Bush administration officials to cooperate with the probe.
Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said that Rove, however, will cooperate with a federal criminal probe of the firings being led by Nora Dannehy, the Acting U.S. Attorney for Connecticut who was selected by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey to lead the investigation. Dannehy has recently empaneled a federal grand jury to hear evidence in the matter.
Luskin told me that Rove had earlier not cooperated with the Inspector General and OPR probe into the firings because "it was not his call... it was not up to us decide." Luskin said that Rove was directed by the Bush White House counsel's office not to cooperate with the Inspector General and OPR.
Murray has more here.
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a new AG, and now fatass changes his mind. I just wonder WHO will sing like a bird to save there ass. any guess.
Just what I was thinking, he's covering his ass.
Too bad richard armitedge isn't still around to take the sole blame for everyone.
Of course he will, all of these cowards scatter like cockroaches once someone threatens to shed some light on their shit.
Covering his own ass is all he has left now.
They want you to believe that Rove 'changed his mind" when it couldn't be further from the truth. Contending that Rove will cooperate is just that a contention, and, as we know with Rethuglicans, the truth is typically the exact opposite of what they say.
Rove will sing either way.
And do a little soft-shoe?
Nick Berg, maybe? I hear it's a beautiful melody.
Just ask that "reporter" guy...whatshisface? Gregory or somethin...
ya mean that its possible that he was told that he would actually be subject to the LAW?!?!
Wow! We're almost behaving like a real country!
It's cooperate .... or get his pasty-white arse arrested, fined for contempt, and STILL have to face a judge.
Correction:
Roves attorney should have said Mr. Rove will show up, however he will not cooperate with furthering the Congressional or Justice Dept. investigation.
BTW: Haul his arse before a Grand Jury first because you know he will purger himself.
... I don't think the country can handle Karl purging himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlfcF1I5e_g
Love that Mr. Creosote skit.........just cannot understand why women hate it so?
Darned key board ;-(
bring in Joe the Plumber's Helper as well because you know he'll plunger himself.
And he will speak only if he is not under oath. I'd lie to know all the conditions Rove has set for his "cooperation".
Well, you know in court cases, the Court Reporter is there to take down the record. And then to prove perjury, that record is supposed to be transcribed. But for some reason in my divorce case in Austin, Texas the Court Reporter never got around to transcribing the record and the Judge never ordered her to do so. Yeah, something fishy was going on there. It's not nice to deny a natural born American citizen her rights. When are those Texans going to respect the rule of law?
It doesn't seem to say but as I read it, it doesn't mention if he'll be responding to the congressional subpoena does it?
The hearings will be "led by Nora Dannehy, the Acting U.S. Attorney for Connecticut who was selected by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey to lead the investigation" and we're supposed to believe that this is going to be anything more than business as usual?
Who needs a presidential pardon from chimpy when the system has been rigged for at least the next 4 years?
Can I get a link??
Trust NOTHING KKKarl says unless it's under oath. OK, don't trust it then either...
... you can't trust him with one, either.
it doesn't mean he'll testify.
Get ready for a barrage of "I choose NOT to answeer, Senator, in grounds that it may incriminate me."
Be prepared for a Gonzalez defense "I don't remember if I recall"
As fun as the glee-cackling sounds, It's not like Karl doesn't have an exit strategy (here y'go, BobD). Still nothing will come of this, not so long as Obama insists on "looking forward."
It's called the Reagan defense...which was basically...I'm a mindless old doddering fool...so I don't remember anything.
Since Rove has been around since Nixon, (he put the tricky in Dick) maybe he came up with either Reagan's defense for Reagan, or he recognised the early signs of Alzheimer's in Reagan and took advantage of an old doddering fool! Either way, lovely guy...
If it comes down to a choice between saving his own ass or someone else's ass, I have a feeling Karl will spill as many beans as he has too.
Remember he was known as bush's brain. Anyone recall one damned thing bush or his brain produced that was smart? Nope, me neither. Bush also protected Karl and now that protection is gone.
Bush could have given Rove some sort of pardon but didn't -- with friends like that...
Someone said, and I think it was here at C&L, that bush could have given pardons and not make them public. Don't know the details or anything else about that.
Well, it was probably on his check list, but he forgot to do it. Sort of like forgeting to turn the gas off before going on vacation.
I bet Bush issued some sort of secret pardons that would only be revealed if someone were actually charged. Of course, the pardon would hopefully not be honored. While I would love to see Thomas, Scalia and Roberts claim that Bush has the power to issue double-secret pardons or argue that Bush retains executive immunity, even though there is no such thing, particularly when the matter pertains to official US business.
The US president has no privilege to keep secret his official business. While there is a secrets clause in the Constitution, it does not apply to criminal behavior or the Executive Branch. Rather, it is a tool of Congress, which can only be executed through legislation, and I am not aware of any statute that says the President may issue secret pardons.
Odd that the republican symbol is the elephant
Who never forgets
For a party
That never recalls.
Then he'll get tripped up on his own lies.
I'd like to see them re-visit the Valerie Plame case.
That's the really big fish.
The republicans no longer need Karl's advice because now they have Joe the Plumber meeting with the GOP staffers to plan out the republican strategy for the way ahead for their party. Nope, I'm not kidding.
Limbaugh/Wurzelbacher 2012!
Get Palin on that ticket too and we have the beginnings of a first class horror flick.
I guess she could be co-veep with the Plumber since each of them has about half a brain.
Palin, cabinet as either Interior, she has Oil; or as statex, he can see Russia. Or Defense as she is the CIC of the Alaska Nat Guard
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DOJ investigation? He'll "cooperate". Congressional hearings and subpeonas? Not so much.
The only way I see Rove cooperating is in return for an immunity deal. The guy is a sniveling coward.
http://www.uclick.com/client/nyt/bs/
Maybe somebody showed Rove some photos of the inside of a prison.
With the image of he and another inmate photoshopped in it.
And a bar of soap on the floor.
Good morning Patricia.
Good Morning to you Captain. How's bunny rabbit and Mr. Green Jeans?
Every time I read your name here, that little lead-in song from that show plays in my head. :)
This?
I couldn't open your link but I found it here
Oh. I have it playing in the background 24/7. lol
He's shredded all the evidence of course he will cooperate.
Cheney took care of that, didn't you see how he strained his back moving boxes? Boxes of records, and I'm not talking albums!
It was his Bay City Rollers collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqj6OXQnnaE
I wondered why Cheney was moving boxes. Then I realized that if anybody else saw the records he would have to shoot them.
Are you implying that Whittington saw the files?! Or suggested he not shred them on legal grounds? Didn't the DOJ get caught hiring someone for doing a system 7 wipe on a HDD? Cheney, the king of no bid contracts, does his dirty work himself! Oh what we learn when the hoods run for the exits.
Criminals leading criminals.
come on all this speculations just so much pie in the sky!!!!!! no matter what rove discloses the obama administration has no intention of going after one of its own! thiers plenty of proof that bush and cheny commited crimes but your sainted hero barack wants to move it along folks theres nothing to see here! accomadations have allreay been made to protect the douchbags who run this country! this is just so much merry fitzmass , enjoy the delusion !
Good Morning, Tyree!
I see you are in your usual cheerful spirit today. Are all the sides of your bed the wrong side? ;)
no pop my bed faces towards reality! its a shame everyone elses fart sack faces towards fantasy land!
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What a beautiful comment and what a beautiful way to wake up each morning.
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If Rove suddenly cooperates, its because the Obama lawyers let him know that the new administration wasn't going to support his claims of executive privaledge going forward.
Rick Sanchez reported yesterday that Bush granted Rove 'Presidential Privilege in Perpetuity' before his time was up in office, without telling anyone. So armed with that, apparently, Rove doesn't have talk to anyone, anytime about the Bush Administration if he doesn't want to unless it's overturned by the Supreme Court. In essence it's lifetime immunity.
I saw that and I have a feeling that it would not hold up in court. Maybe Rove's lawyer told him he could try to go the Presidential Privilege route but the fee would be enough for Lufkin to build up his stash that he has lost in the stock market.
First of all, there is no presidential privilege, no matter what anyone tells you, when the matter at hand refers to official US business. The President has no privilege to conceal his public duties from the American public. End of sentence. Period. I will, of course, reconsider if anyone can cite specific constitutional language otherwise.
Second, any reporter who seriously parrots a Bush talking point like "granting Rove presidential privilege in perpetuity" is either a nincompoop or not a reporter.
Third, there is no presidential privilege for a communication with a US employee. Why? Because that is official US business, and the public has the right to know everything a US official does in the performance of his official duties. Granted, there was a period time that Rove was not a US employee - I think he had to go due to some skullduggery - but Bush still wouldn't be entitled to claim privilege because Rove's lay status would eviscerate any claim of privilege.
I know that some may contend that there is a body of law that recognizes Executive immunity; however, I happen to fundamentally reject the idea that a US president has any privilege to keep secret any aspect of his official duties, except for the narrowest of possible circumstances. For example, Bush seeking private counsel to discuss his criminal conduct, etc.
Of course every word that comes out of Rove's mouth is a lie. And if the Courts ask him to testify under oath, the little turd will always resort to Executive immunity.
In some ways this doesn't make sense. I agree with tyree. The crimes Bush committed are far more serious and there are rationalizations that are going on in the current administration that seem to be PROTECTING Bush.
Why is prosecuting war crimes looking back but prosecuting justice firings is looking forward?
Right now Micheal Phelps taking a bong hit is getting more negative press than Bush killing a million innocents over a war that was based on lies.
Micheal Phelps taking a bong hit is getting more negative press than Bush killing a million innocents over a war that was based on lies.
Opium for the masses, son.
Why is prosecuting war crimes looking back but prosecuting justice firings is looking forward?
Because looking back is not self serving...but looking forward is.
there are rationalizations that are going on in the current administration that seem to be PROTECTING Bush
Each party will attack the other when there are political points to be scored, but the line is drawn where complicity comes into play...then...all parties fight to maintain the status quo...and thus...their own asses.
that at least 1 million have been killed in Iraq, 2 million widows and 5 million displaced. (In Mike's Blog Roundup at Contextual Criticism.)
But, as far as war crimes or crimes against humanity, there is nothing to see there.
thats it in a nut shell curt! short and sweet! and notice no one asked what side of the bed you wake up on! i guess its all in the way one puts it!
how about we put a black bag on carl, put him on a plain to somewhere then start the vidio. Have the waterboard in view. I would he will cry like a little Bitch he is and tell all.just a thought.
on what type of purgative is being used.
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Saying that Rove will cooperate with Conyers is like believing that Rove cooperated with Patrick Fitzgerald. I never did understand why Rove wasn't charged with disclosing the name of a covert agent, but that's because the handsome face of Patrick Fitzgerald hoodwinked the nation. He (Fitzgerald) was never anything but cover for Bushco.
If he "cooperates" its because the fix is already in.
Maybe he'd agree to a "kick in the bum" with a giant boot like Bart's punishment on the Simpsons at the hands of outraged Aussies.
Translation, "We've had time to burn all the evidence and we've gotten our story straight. Bring 'em on!"
but I digress. I predict that he will develop a memory like Alberto Gonzales.
I'll believe it when I see it. This is "The Brain" we're talking about.
'Come to Jesus' meeting.
Question will they put Rove (TURD BLOSSOM) under OATH. My ans., not LIKELY, is Rove (TURD BLOSSOM) realy going to COOPERATE, not likely this is just a Farce to get the dogs off his trail, the dogs are We the people. The CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA is still PROTECTING Rove(TURD BLOSSOM) and the Bush Crime Familly BACK.
But how does he define "cooperate". The English language has been bullied and twisted by the Bush administration. Just look at the Plame case and how they "cooperated".
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