Reacting to the news of Rove's new trip before the grand jury,
Lawrence O'Donnell says this means Luskin is desperate and that the prosecutor has every right to expect that this
"will either add a count or two to the indictment or force Rove to flip and testify against someone else."
What this means is Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin, believes his client is defintely going to be indicted.
So, Luskin is sending Rove back into the grand jury to try to get around the prosecutor and sell his innocence directly to the grand jurors. Legal defense work doesn't get more desperate than this. The prosecutor is happy to let Rove go under oath again--without his lawyer in the room--and try to wiggle out of the case. The prosecutor has every right to expect that Rove's final under-oath grilling will either add a count or two to the indictment or force Rove to flip and testify against someone else.
I'm as excited as everyone else, but I still think there is reason for caution here.
We don't know that this was Fitz's move. Perhaps Rove, sensing an imminent indictment, came forward and asked to come before the grand jury again. Perhaps Fitz, after listening to Judy's testimony and noticing discrepencies, took Rove up on an offer he'd made in July.
Perhaps Fitz case really isn't that strong and perhaps Rove is going to turn on Libby and perhaps he's going to try and muddy the water for everyone.
He's flipping... He's rolling... He's taking one for the team... He's driving Luskin crazy... Luskin put him up to it, because Luskin is desperate or stupid... Will the grand jury be extended...? Will we be hearing of indictments within the week? Will Cheney go down? Will Bush go down?
WE. JUST. DO. NOT. KNOW.