Rove and the Grand Jury: The Known Facts

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Tuesday June 13, 2006 · 9:24 AM PDT

2006/06/13 · 09:24

Another day, another Gold Bars Luskin press release. Ho-Hum. Let's stick with the known facts before we freak over this.

Remember, folks, Fitz' investigation has been declared dead, oh, about eleventy-five billion times in the past. And it's usually right before he does something spectacular, like jailing Cooper, jailing Miller, or indicting Libby.

Let's look at the known facts, not just what Gold Bars is spinning. Follow me past the fold.

1) Has Fitzgerald ~~disbanded the Grand Jury~~ indicated in any way, shape or form that this investigation is over? [Thanks to Elwood Dowd for reminding us all that Fitz is sharing this jury with other prosecutors and so it's not his to "disband".] No.

2) Is Luskin willing to release this alleged letter in its entirety to the press? No. [UPDATE: In fact, Luskin now won't even clarify if it was a letter or a phone call that he recieved.]

3) What's the likelihood that Luskin wouldn't have publicly released this letter* [*see update to #2 above] if it was 100% good news for Rove, Bush, Libby and/or Cheney? Slim and None, and Slim just left town.

4) Has Rove been to the GJ at least five times (that we know of)? Yes.

5) Do innocent people get called five times before any GJ that's not run by a hack like Ken Starr? No.

6) Following #5, if Rove is in fact guilty as sin, how does he free himself? By offering up somebody else's scalp.

7) Who possess the only scalps Fitz would value over Rove's own? Bush and Cheney.

8) What would happen to the GOP's 2006 chances if Bush pardoned Libby, Rove and/or Cheney? Can you say "House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers"? I knew you could.

Taking all of this into account, it sounds as if Rove has managed to sell Cheney to Fitz -- or at the VERY least, guarantee that Libby gets a prison cell.

As I and several other folks have mentioned several times before, it looks very much as if the Treasongate case has come down to a Rove-Cheney Deathmatch. When Libby was indicted, that was a sign that Rove and not Cheney would win. (For one thing, Rove has two scalps he can offer up that are more valuable than his own: Bush's and Cheney's. Cheney only has one scalp: Bush's.)
[UPDATE: By the way, I couldn't care less about Jason Leopold. Never trusted him on this case. But I don't trust Gold Bars Luskin, either. Especially when Luskin not only refuses to state exactly what Fitzgerald told him, but won't even clarify if he was told it via a letter or a phone call.]

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