Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted

From truthout via ZNet:

Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job when the special counsel publicly announces the charges against him, according to sources.

Details of Rove's discussions with the president and Bolten have spread through the corridors of the White House where low-level staffers and senior officials were trying to determine how the indictment would impact an administration that has been mired in a number of high- profile political scandals for nearly a year, said a half-dozen White House aides and two senior officials who work at the Republican National Committee.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, sources confirmed Rove's indictment is imminent. These individuals requested anonymity saying they were not authorized to speak publicly about Rove's situation. A spokesman in the White House press office said they would not comment on "wildly speculative rumors."

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Oh my. Whatever will the President do without his brain?

This is really fantastic, of course, and long awaited. Of course, Rove lied to the grand jury and obstructed justice. What else was he supposed to do? Admit that he shamelessly divulged the name of an undercover CIA operative who was investigating Iran's nuclear weapons program all for a petty political vendetta? No. He just couldn't do that, so he lied instead. This will further cripple the already massively gimpy White House.

I'm starting to believe that there may be, after all, some kind of justice in the universe.

And stepping away from the trees for a moment to look at the forest, this is yet another loud signal that today's GOP is, perhaps, the most politically corrupt group in American history. Tom DeLay's "K Street Project," an elaborate operation aimed at formalizing lobbyist bribes for favorable legislation, the Abramoff lobby/bribe scandal which still stands to implicate a yet unknown number of GOP lawmakers, former GOP Congressman Duke Cunningham's hookers and bribes scandal which has already brought down CIA director Porter Goss, all this, and whatever I'm forgetting, show the Republican Party to be no more than a criminal enterprise which makes the Corleone family look like a t-ball team.

I've been saying for some months that it's not about ideology anymore; it's about incompetence and crime. At this point, I think I'd be happy, relatively speaking of course, to be ruled by some real conservatives. Real conservatives, at least, believe in the rule of law.

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