Breaking on WaPo right now:
Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed tomorrow as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, according to two sources familiar with the appointment.
Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy was named last year to investigate whether Justice or WH officials lied or obstructed justice in the 2006 US attorney firings. More below:
Dannehy mostly has operated in the shadows, quietly issuing subpoenas for documents through a federal grand jury in the District. But in recent weeks she has interviewed other former government aides, including White House political deputies Scott Jennings and Sarah Taylor. She also has reached out to representatives for former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and his chief of staff, Steve Bell, in an effort to determine whether New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias was removed for improper political reasons.
Update 1: Thanks to sc kitty for pointing this out - it appears as if this will serve as a warm up for a scheduled Rove and Miers closed door testimony session to the House Judiciary Committee next month. Not sure if the "interview" tomorrow will provide a transcript for the Judiciary committee to check the consistency of the turdblossoms comments or not...
Rove and Miers are tentatively scheduled to provide closed-door testimony to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and other members of the panel sometime next month.
Update 2: Most of the discussion is focusing, rightly so, on whether or not this will be testimony given under oath or whether it will be a polite questioning session replete w/ tea, scones and "I don't recalls". From what I gather from the WaPo article it is the latter, but - and this is an important but - lying to a federal prosecutor is a serious offense. My apologies for the misleading title which has been changed to reflect this.
Update 3: Last one for now - Michael Mukasey appointed Nora Dannehy last September after:
The internal investigators said that the White House’s refusal to cooperate in the high-profile investigation produced significant "gaps" in the understanding of who was to blame and that they did not have enough evidence to justify recommending criminal charges in the affair. Now the task of determining if anyone should be prosecuted will fall to Nora Dannehy, the federal prosecutor in Connecticut.
Given the fact that Ms. Dannehy very recently interviewed Rove's deputy, Scott Jennings, one might speculate that Rove is turning into a very central target of this criminal investigation.
But in recent weeks she has interviewed other former government aides, including White House political deputies Scott Jennings and Sarah Taylor.