Rove Testifies 5th Time On Leak
Karl Rove testified for more than three hours before a Federal Grand Jury yesterday, in an appearance that had been kept secret even from his closest White House aides.
And, after the event, it appears that even Rove is now losing confidence that he won't be indicted.Rove's testimony focused almost exclusively on his conversation about Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in 2003 and whether the top aide 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 yesterday that they expect a decision on Rove's fate soon.
The decision of the White House to replace Scott McClellan, the man who assured the world that Rove was not involved in the leaking of the name of ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame to the press; and the moving of Rove from his position at the White House to a less public role, gives every indication that the Bush administration fears the worst and is taking pre-emptive steps to distance itself from the man known as Bush's brain.
Though it all stinks of too little, too late.
If Rove is indicted, Bush's administration will be mired in sleaze, and questions will begin about just how involved Mr Bush and Mr Cheney were in the efforts to silence Plame's husband Joe Wilson who claimed that the administrations reasons for invading Iraq were based on lies.
Lies, that Wilson claims, they should have known about.
We already know that the CIA told Bush and Cheney before the war that there were serious doubts regarding Iraq and WMD. The case affecting Rove and Libby concerns to just what lengths the White House were prepared to go to, to disguise the fact that they knew their WMD claims were bogus as they made them.
Quite how involved Bush was is open to questioning, but Cheney's hands are certainly all over this.
The unravelling of the Presidency of George W. Bush is about to gather pace.
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