Leaking Lawyers: Rove To Go Down / Hannah To Roll On Rove

Apparently, Rove is about to go down due two factors, according to the leaking lawyers of Treasongate:  Hannah rolling over on him and the now infamous Hadley email.

Great Rove comb-over picture AND yet another excellent Jason Leopold and Larisa Alexandrovna scoop.

Hadley:

Fitzgerald was concerned that Rove had hidden or destroyed evidence, lawyers close to the case tell RAW STORY. His suspicions may have been right: an email he sent to then Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley in early July 2003 later proved Rove had spoken to Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper about Plame--a fact that Rove omitted when he was first interviewed by the FBI.

Hannah:

Hannah gave Fitzgerald the names of some White House officials who knew about Plame Wilson and disseminated her CIA status to reporters and other White House officials, the laywers said. One of the officials Hannah appears to have implicated was Rove, they added.

Get the champaign ready!  We may very well have an indictment in time for Christmas, er Fitzmas!

Per Terre's suggestion, this update, which somewhat makes this story news:

Short of a last minute intervention by Rove's attorney, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is expected to ask a grand jury investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson to indict Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove for making false statements to the FBI and Justice Department investigators in October 2003, lawyers close to the case say.

•  Link?

  You should link to the story.

  by danielj on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:11:36 AM PDT

  •  oops

    I see now that you did.  Sorry.

    by danielj on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:12:15 AM PDT

  •  Sorry.. done.

    by The Gnostic on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:12:17 AM PDT

•  It's encouraging that this is in the news

  But what is Rawstory hyping here?

  What is the new stuff?

  Didn't we already know all of this?

  by Kane in CA on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:12:20 AM PDT

  •  I think this is the quote that's missing

    from The Gnostic's diary:

    Short of a last minute intervention by Rove's attorney, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is expected to ask a grand jury investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson to indict Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove for making false statements to the FBI and Justice Department investigators in October 2003, lawyers close to the case say.

    On another note - damn the site is slow today.

    by Terre on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:27:07 AM PDT

    •  i'll be honest

      recalling all the hoopla and rampant 'sourced' speculation about who and how many indictments were coming down the pipeline before fitzgerald's last press conference, i'll take any speculation of further actions with a huge dose of rock salt.  don't get me wrong, rove would be the trophy we'd all like to see above our mantle, but i will not get my hopes up like last time.

      by sedrunsic on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:35:52 AM PDT

      •  As I recall...

        ...Raw Story said "two to seven" indictments were expected. Libby got indicted, and press accounts say that Rove would have been except for a last-minute gambit by Luskin, which seems to have been the Viveca Novak story.

        So, I think that what they reported was accurate.

        by Elwood Dowd on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:40:51 AM PDT

        •  fair enough

          by sedrunsic on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:47:55 AM PDT

        •  Five indictments were handed down

          Unfortunately, they were all against Libby.  

          But on the facts, wasn't Raw Story correct?  It didn't say 2 - 7 different people would be indicted, just 2 to 7 indictments.  And there were 5.

          by Monteego on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 12:22:10 PM PDT

          •  Not exactly

            There was one indictment with five counts handed down against Libby.

            by pollyusa on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 05:54:51 PM PDT

      •  Yea - color me from Missouri

        on this one, speclulation gets old, time to show some cards.

        by calebfaux on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:48:59 AM PDT

  •  Here's a quickie outline

    for major events in the last month:

  •   11-10-05  Viveca Novak, not under oath, meets informally with Fitzgerald;

  •   11-18-05  Fitzgerald empanels a new grand jury; AND Viveca's lawyer, Hank Schuelke, calls her to say that Fitz wants a deposition and meeting with her, under oath, on 12-10-05;

  •   12-02-05  Robert Luskin testified in a deposition;

  •   12-07-05  Fitzgerald meets with grand jury for about 3 hours;

  •   12-08-05  Viveca testifies in a deposition for 1 1/2 hours.

  •   12-13-05  Speculation continues as we sit on pins and needles, while simultaneously drumming our fingers on the desk, and hitting refresh over and over.

    Luskin appears to have bought additional time for Rove to remain in the WH, nothing else.  It appears to me that the initial conversation that Fitz had with Viveca was the nail that sealed Rove's coffin.