Wednesday, April 26, 2006
TurdBlossom has another round of Fitz.
Everybodies favorite Mayberry Machiavelli paid another call on the grand jury at the invitation of Patrick Fitzgerald. With his keen photographic memory he was probably able to avoid the perils of perjury, but what if the Cheney people had left a few hidden mines in their contributions to the investigation? But this is all speculation. What the NY Times reports is this:
It was not immediately clear what questions Mr. Rove had to address. Over the last few months, the special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, has sought to establish whether a Time magazine reporter, Viveca Novak, played a role in alerting Mr. Rove, through his lawyer, about his possible involvement in the investigation after it had already begun.As usual, you will have to stay tuned for the ending of this suspense thriller.
In his initial testimony to the grand jury, in Feb. 2004, Mr. Rove failed to disclose that he had ever discussed the issue of Valerie Wilson, a C.I.A. operative, with any reporters. Mr. Rove came forward months later to change his story, acknowledging that he had a phone conversation with Matt Cooper of Time Magazine in the summer of 2003 that eventually turned to the subject of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, Ms. Wilson's husband.
Mr. Rove said he had forgotten the call, one of hundreds he participates in each day. Lawyers for Mr. Rove say he will be exonerated in the case, in part because he volunteered details of his conversation with Mr. Cooper.
Since then, however, another Time magazine reporter, Ms. Novak, has said that she told Mr. Rove's lawyer, in several conversations in early 2004, that she believed his client had been a source for Mr. Cooper.
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