11:28am PT: Lawrence O’Donnell will be on with Al Franken & Katherine on Air America after the break. (O’Donnell is saying it’ll be difficult to get a conviction in this case. READ MY NOTES in the comments section.} Floyd Abrams was just on. And, the WH site will put up a video of the press conference shortly, and a transcript later.


Update [2005-7-11 14:37:53 by susanhu]: From Think Progress blog:

Breaking: White House Stonewalls on Rove

Finally, the White House press corps gets its act together.


Scott McClellan’s press briefing is beginning now (you can watch it live here) — but a reporter inside today’s untelevised press gaggle just shot us an email. Apparently Scottie was asked 5 different times about the Rove revelations, and 5 different times he said he “would not comment on an ongoing investigation.”


UPDATE: This press briefing is stunning. McClellan is refusing to say anything at all, not one word, about the Plame case. The reporters are outraged – NBC’s David Gregory just told McClellan that his stonewalling was “ridiculous.”


UPDATE II: McClellan’s line is that he will not comment on the investigation until the “appropriate time, which is when the investigation has concluded.” Actually, that’s not true — at all. The investigation began on September 28, 2003.



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Below the first screen and the big centered ad, in the fourth paragraph, NBC’s First Read notes, “Beyond the Hill [I guess THAT’S where we little people are], the buzz is about Karl Rove’s role in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s name, as reported by Newsweek yesterday.”
… More below:

ABC’s The Note ignores the Newsweek story, only mentioning Karl Rove’s name here: “Sen. Lindsey Graham told Karl Rove his recommendation for the U.S. Supreme Court nominee would be William W. Wilkins, a chief judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond Va.”


Slate‘s daily round-up of top newspaper stories doesn’t mention the Rove/Newsweek story.

The NYT and LAT get by with a July 10 Reuters story. In today’s related NYT story — “For Time Inc. Reporter, a Frenzied Decision to Testify” — Newsweek is mentioned in the 20th paragraph.


The Page A01 WaPo story is framed by the paper’s interview of Karl Rove’s attorney: “Rove Told Reporter of Plame’s Role But Didn’t Name Her, Attorney Says.”


In another blog reaction — with a wink — Blah3 writes:

“If Rove committed perjury, the boys from Powerline know exactly what the consequences would be:
Until now, perjury has always been viewed as a serious crime — a more serious crime, for example, than Richard Nixon was ever suspected of. Perjury in a federal case…carries a penalty of five years in a federal penitentiary. Perjury is a felony; felons are not only disqualified from holding public office, they can’t vote. And the laws governing perjury make no discrimination on the basis of subject matter. Any knowingly false testimony about facts material to a civil or criminal case counts. The hundreds or thousands of felons now doing time for perjury testified falsely about a wide variety of matters. The only common denominator is that each and every perjurer no doubt believed that the questions he answered falsely were none of the prosecutor’s business.

Sounds pretty serious, huh?

They have yet to comment on what might happen if Rove’s found guilty of treason, which I believe might carry a death penalty.

Of course, the story’s from 1998 and the boys were talking about Clinton and his penis, but hey, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. The law’s the law, right, and it needs to be equally applied to all.

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