UPDATE: It didn’t happen today. Darn!
Raw Story is reporting that Patrick Fitzgerald is briefing the grand jury today in hopes of getting an indictment of Karl Rove for lying to investigators.
When asked Wednesday what the prosecutor was briefing the grand jury about, Randall Samborn, Fitzgerald’s spokesman, said he had no comment and “can’t confirm or deny” the prosecutor was meeting with the grand jury…
…Fitzgerald intends to present the grand jury with the sworn testimony from Rove’s attorney Robert Luskin, and Time magazine reporter Viveca Novak. The sources close to the case said Fitzgerald is still intent on seeking an indictment against Rove on at least one count of making false statements to FBI and Justice Department investigators when he was first interviewed in early October 2003 about his role in the leak.
Rove failed to tell investigators at the time that he had spoken about covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and conservative columnist Robert Novak, who first published her name and CIA status in a July 14, 2003 column. Rove had been a source for both journalists. Cooper and Novak later cooperated in the case. Luskin said Rove had forgotten about the conversation.
Eleventh-hour testimony from reporter Viveca Novak—who Rove’s attorney Robert Luskin fingered as a crucial witness in keeping his client out of court—does not appear to have been helpful to Rove in dodging an indictment, the sources said.
Can it be true? Oh please, oh please, oh please…
At this point I am convinced not only will they never convict Rove of anything, they’re never going to even be able to charge him. They don’t call him the master of spin for nothing.