NYT: Scooter indicted, Rove spared... for now
Just in.....
The NY Times is reporting that Cheney Chief of Staff Scooter Libby will be indicted tomorrow.
Rove will not be indicted... for now, but he is still "under investigation" and the prosecutor Fitzgerald is asking to re-institute a Grand Jury, which would indicate he well may have more up his sleeve.
This could be the beginning of something big.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.
posted by The Inside Dope @ 10/27/2005
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He'd have to fire himself in that case, Young. He's part and parcel of all of the rampant corruption and abuse of power that infests his administration. Holding him apart from it is a mistake.
A clarification. As I understand it, Fitzgerald had previously asked for and gotten an extension for the Grand Jury's term, so another extension is not possible. But rather he is expected to request that another Grand Jury be formed.
And like dissenter, this has all the markings of, and I hope it will turn out to be, a flip and indict up the chain situation.
For those of us long suffering patriots who give a damn about what this gang has done to our government and it's standing around the world, tomorrow could be a rare cause for hope.
But the fact remains, as I have long said, that nothing ... nothing... will ever stop or even slow down this administration unless Republicans finally stand up and say enough.
The sad fact is that the Dems are utterly and pathetically ignored and impotent and as far as their ability to have any effect against this gang, they might as well not exist, given how their every utterance is ignored and their motives impugned.
But let one Republican question the actions of the administration, and it's a huge story in the press and action is taken.
Unless the sane Republicans stand up against the radical/fundie jihad within the party, nothing will change.
There are angry rumblings within this moderate segment of the Republican, especially due to the American taliban wing of the party 86ing Miers before she even got a hearing, and it might translate into a battle for the soul of the party.
Some pundits are saying that Libby will take the fall, get convicted, and then Bush will pardon Libby near the end of his term.
As unsavory as that scenario is, it's entirely possible.
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