Prosecutor closes in on Bush ‘brain’

PRESIDENT George W Bush is preparing for life without his “brain” — his political adviser Karl Rove — in anticipation of criminal indictments over the leaked identity of a CIA agent. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is expected this week to wrap up a two-year investigation into the naming of the agent, Valerie Plame.

What began as little more than a parlour game question — who sent her husband Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador, to Niger to investigate dubious claims about the sale of uranium to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq? — has become a critical test of the integrity of the White House. The omens are not good for Rove, the arch political operator known as “Bush’s brain”, and “Scooter” Libby, chief of staff to Dick Cheney, the vice-president. Despite earlier denials, evidence has accumulated that they suggested to reporters that Wilson’s mission was little more than a freebie for a critic of the administration, set up by his CIA wife.

At the time the CIA was at loggerheads with Cheney and his “Iraq group” of advisers over the strength of evidence for Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction programme. Wilson’s debunking of the uranium sales was seen as a hostile act. There were signs this weekend that the president is distancing himself from the man he calls the architect of his election victories. If indicted, Rove and Libby are expected to step down immediately from their posts.

The stakes could not be higher, with Bush already reeling from attacks over the handling of Hurricane Katrina and the nomination of Harriet Miers, his personal lawyer, to the Supreme Court. According to a presidential adviser, Bush carpeted Rove two years ago for his inept handling of the Plame controversy. “He made his displeasure known to Karl,” the adviser said. “He made his life miserable about this.” Andrew Card, Bush’s chief of staff, last week emphasised the need for “honesty and ethics” at the White House. “Our job is to help the president do his job and it’s not to worry about each other,” Card said pointedly. He went on to list the “outstanding people” who advise the president, without mentioning Rove.

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... life without a brain hasn't seemed to bother * thus far ...

:evilgrin:

America's Scarecrow.

:rofl:

"life with close proximity to his brain" since you know Rover will be coaching and manipulating from the sidelines.

Brain?

Brains R US? But we need a Good Brain...not any ole crony brain?

Where are the GOOD BRAINS?

BTW Bill Frist on C Span..speech in Iowa....flat flat flat...he is fucked.

he would had folded this long ago. My guess is that this is going to be big.