It’s 80 degrees out and the birds are chirping. I’ve got some errands to run, and who wants to be inside anyway. But, there are some stories out there for me to work on. One is the Raw Story revelation that alleges the Office of the Vice-President has retained the services of Iran-Contra middleman, the notorious arms dealer and prevaricator, Manucher Ghorbanifar. The other big story is something that should warm the hearts of all frog-stalkers. Jason Leopold reports:
Just as the news broke Wednesday about Scott McClellan resigning as White House press secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove shedding some of his policy duties, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury hearing evidence in the CIA leak case and introduced additional evidence against Rove, attorneys and other US officials close to the investigation said.
The grand jury session in federal court in Washington, DC, sources close to the case said, was the first time this year that Fitzgerald told the jurors that he would soon present them with a list of criminal charges he intends to file against Rove in hopes of having the grand jury return a multi-count indictment against Rove.
In an interview Wednesday, Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove remains a “subject” of Fitzgerald’s two-year-old probe.
“Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation,” Luskin said. In a previous interview, Luskin asserted that Rove would not be indicted by Fitzgerald, but he was unwilling to make that prediction again Wednesday.
If Fitz indicts Rove, we are going to have a party. Who will bring the beer?
Later on, I’ll put together my thoughts on these stories.
