Rove Indicted (or not?)

by: odum

Sat May 13, 2006 at 22:25:40 PM EDT

So is Karl Rove indicted or not? Truthout reports yes indeed:

Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.

  Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, did not return a call for comment. Sources said Fitzgerald was in Washington, DC, Friday and met with Luskin for about 15 hours to go over the charges against Rove, which include perjury and lying to investigators about how and when Rove discovered that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative and whether he shared that information with reporters, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said.

  It was still unknown Saturday whether Fitzgerald charged Rove with a more serious obstruction of justice charge. Sources close to the case said Friday that it appeared very likely that an obstruction charge against Rove would be included with charges of perjury and lying to investigators.

So is it true? If so, why haven't we seen it anywhere else like, say CNN? MSNBC? Unfortunately Jason Leopold and Truthout are not sources we can feel confident about, and the blogosphere is abuzz as to whether he should be believed or not. Guess we'll find out soon. If it's true, you can say you read it at GMD first. If it's not, maybe I'll just be tacky and delete the diary...