Patrick Fitzgerald was spotted Tuesday

Roll Call (sub.req.): "Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was spotted Tuesday at the law offices of Patton Boggs paying a visit to Robert Luskin, the eccentric (for Washington, D.C.) lawyer who represents Karl Rove."

Does anyone know why?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

until I read your post!

:freak:

:P

Rove's getting indicted. *giggle*

Courtesy of RC, Heard on the Hill (HOH), sub req:

Though HOH heard about the visit from a well-placed source, Luskin refused, if politely, to confirm why or even whether Fitzgerald visited him.

The rumor floating around Patton Boggs Tuesday was that there “may” be no indictments this week because Fitzgerald “may” need to seek an extension from the presiding judge to wrap up his investigation of Flamegate (or Plamegate for those of us who aren’t Judy Miller).

An extension would be little wonder, given The New York Times’ whopper revelation that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby first heard about the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame not from journalists, as he initially claimed, but from his boss, Vice President Cheney. Of course, anything would be little wonder at this point.

Sources, by the way, report that Rove himself was spotted visiting his lawyer on Friday.

Rove is sooo toast!!!

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-102505leak_lat,0,6685030,print.story
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Fitzgerald Focuses Again on Rove
By Tom Hamburger, Richard B. Schmitt and Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON -- Prosecutors investigating the leak of a CIA agent's identity returned their attention to powerful White House advisor Karl Rove on Tuesday, questioning a former West Wing colleague about contacts Rove had with reporters in the days leading to the outing of a covert CIA officer.

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In recent days, attention has centered on Libby and the vice president's office. On Tuesday, the focus appeared to shift again to Rove, who has been called four times before the grand jury. Fitzgerald's investigators asked the former colleague about any comments Rove may have made about his conversations with journalists in the days before Plame's name was made public by syndicated columnist Robert Novak.

"It appeared to me the prosecutor was trying to button up any holes that were remaining," a lawyer familiar with the case said. The lawyer asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the ongoing inquiry.

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It should be the other way around, imo. I sure hope they aren't cutting some kind of deal!

DU THREAD HERE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1877570

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Three days before the grand jury in the case expires and with the White House in a state of high anxiety, the special counsel, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, appeared still to be trying to determine whether Mr. Rove had been fully forthcoming about his contacts with Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Robert D. Novak, the syndicated columnist, in July 2003, they said.

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