All the Days of Rove’s Indictment

All the Days of Rove's Indictment

UPDATE: Peter Daou weighs in on Jason Leopold. … also Tim Grieve has more in Salon's War Room.

ROVE FACE-OFF Will he be indicted? Has he been already? Stay tuned…

Soap opera fans are going to love this one. It's not
the first episode of the Republican
Party's ongoing
soap opera.

There's quite the buzz today over Jason Leopold's story recently that Rove
has indeed been indicted. I cited it through Talk Left, which jumped all over
it. The bottom line today is that we don't know anything for sure. It's quite
a rhetorical face off happening right now, like characters of a soap opera who are
trying to convince the audience of what's really going on. Excitement builds, freeze frame, commercial break, fade to black… until next time, so goes the Days of Rove's Life.

Then you've got the fact that people are feeling there's definitely something
in the air.

This morning, a very interesting development cropped up that is legally
titillating.

Bottom line: I believe Jason's sources told him what he reported. Were the sources accurate? Were they basically right but just mistaken on a few of the legal technicalities due to an unfamiliarity with the jargon? Time will tell. If they lied, Jason has promised to disclose their identities. I would just caution everyone not to be impatient. Let it play out. If the return of the Indictment is made public this week,then regardless of whether Fitz was at Luskin's office for one hour or many hours this past Friday, or whether the Indictment was voted on last week or this week, I think it proves Jason's sources, and his reporting, substantially correct. On the other hand, should it turn out that Fitzgerald was not in D.C. at all on Friday, that he was not at Luskin's office and neither was Rove, then Jason will disclose his sources and we can discuss whether Jason was set up and why. One last note on former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson's comment on Democratic Underground that Joseph Wilson received the same information as Jason: Some have questioned whether Larry really wrote the comment, or whether it was an imposter. I e-mailed Larry, and he responded, indeed it was him. He added, Joe heard the same things but not from Jason. If these multiple sources are lying then I certainly hope Jason outs their a*s. Leopold Responds to Corallo's Denial of Fitzgerald – Luskin Meeting (emphasis added)

So, according to Larry Johnson, who was in noc school with Valerie Plame, Joseph
Wilson heard the same info that Leopold is reporting.

Talk Left also had a conversation with Rove's spokesperson, Mark
Corallo. Meanwhile, Rove gave a lecture but isn't
taking questions.

If Leopold was set up, then he's going to lower the boom on the bad guys pimping
for the president's man. Good for him. Frankly, he needs to. All this blathering about Rove is bad for blog credibility, so if he's being used for whatever reason he needs to let 'em have it.

Cue the soundtrack of “West Side Story”, featuring “Something's
Comin'.” Because, baby, it likely is.