Re: Rove's resignation: Will he be easier to prosecute?

panader0

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Mon Aug-13-07 06:58 AM
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Re: Rove's resignation: Will he be easier to prosecute?

Will he no longer be able to cite executive priveledge? Was he close to being indicted?

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ThomWV

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:01 AM
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1. Yes

Edited on Mon Aug-13-07 07:02 AM by ThomWV

They will still claim privilege, but no one can deny that he will be less powerful out of the White House than in it and so we come one step closer to the end of this horror and maybe, just maybe, someone paying for the rape of the nation.

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zanne

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:07 AM
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4. He will be "less powerful"

But still able to advise the administration from the outside. The lines have become blurred; it really doesn't make alot of difference. Remember when Karen Hughes left to "devote more time to her family"?

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Lint Head

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:05 AM
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2. He may know something that he cannot testify to until he

resigns. He may be a sqealer. He's already a pig. :dem:

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zanne

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:13 AM
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7. HAH!

Good one, Lint Head!

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Epiphany4z

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:06 AM
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3. He should be

But so far Bush has kept anyone he didn't want to testify from doing so including those no longer at the whitehouse...Harriet...

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ThomWV

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:11 AM
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6. Agreed, but ....

I agree with you that Bush seems to believe that his protection can carry to the grave but I suspect that the court will not agree or that at least the farther in time one is from the White House the less of its power they can call on.

What bothers me more is that now there is basically no restriction on what he can and can not do.

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EST

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:09 AM
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5. It will make little difference, although it may help in that he is

not quite as close in presidential protection. It may be easier to investigate him because he would not be right there, with his finger on nerve centers and conscious of every whisper, locking files and hiding shit in the parking garage.

Because his physical presence is probably intimidating, his absence may well encourage potential whistle blowers and injured parties to step up and play Sampson, bringing the temple crashing to earth.

He was apparently pretty close to being indicted in the Plame leak investigation, costing him a number of trips to the grand jury, revising his lies each time and barely escaping the butt whacking he so richly deserves.

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Bassic

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:16 AM
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8. If he is prosecuted, he'll be pardonned

faster than Bush can tank a bottle of bourbon.

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babylonsister

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:17 AM
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9. They cited exec. privilege for the Tillman case; sure they'll be able

to still use it for Rove. Whether that's legal or not, I don't know, but no one has called the wh on it yet.

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radfringe

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Mon Aug-13-07 07:40 AM
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10. using executive priviledge to cover other bushies who have resigned...

so the cloak will still cover rove

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