Will Karl Rove be indicted in the CIA leak case?
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This question can't really be answered. My opinion is that he will not be indicted. If he is, Bush will pardon him.
1111909
karl rove leaked a cia agent and your not angry, but your angry about a ny times story that tells us what we already know? misplaced anger or ignorance. i say both.
759834
NO HE WILL NOT ... he practicly built the place for his political enemys .... and his war crimes dont count ... because he is Bush.
1175730
Don't think so.\n\nEven in his debates with John Kerry, didn't anyone else notice the earpiece and big fat pack under his jacket?  My guess is that Karl Rove, the "de facto President," was feeding his words to him.  Call his intelligence, or lack thereof, "artificial intelligence," as he is programmed as to what to say by others.
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First of all five men — Bernard Barker, Virgilio González, Eugenio Martínez, James W. McCord, Jr., and Frank Sturgis — were discovered and arrested for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel.\n\nHowever, it was soon discovered that they received their orders from E.Howard Hunt and G Gordon Liddy who work in the White House special investigations unit and were called "plumbers" who were responsible for ordering Watergate.\nand they were soon indicted.\n\nAfter an investigation, one of the seven, probably McCord linked the Watergate incident to the Committee to Reelect the President where the funds for watergate were paid out. This led to the investigation of John Mitchell, the Attorney General, who had headed the CRP. He was indicted along with campaign manager ampaign manager Jeb Stuart Magruder and Fred LaRue as they had approved of Hunt and Libby's sabotage plans. Charles Colson, the President's chief aide was also implicated as he was heavily involved in the CRP.\n\nFurther investigations showed that Watergate led all the way up to the White House as acting FBI Director implicated John Dean the White House Counsel by saying that he had passed FBI files to Dean and his predecessor John Ehrlichman, who was currently the Presdential Advisor on Domestic affairs. Investigations revealed that they were responsible for a massive cover up operation on Watergate. \n\nGordon C Strachan (assistant to Mitchell), Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson (legal aid to the CRP) were also indicted for their involvement with the cover up and together with Mitchell, Colson, Erhlichman and Haldeman made up the famous Watergate Seven that were charged.\n\nProsecutors soon discovered proof that a tape existed containing conversations between Nixon and he was subpoenaed to give them up and refused. That led to a mounting campaign against him with the house and senate threatening to indict the President before the Supreme Court finally forced him to hand over the tapes. That ultimately led to Nixon's resignation.
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i'm not surprised whatsoever. \n\nI mean take a look at just a little bit of history: \n\n* Republican Nixon presidency - Watergate corruption; ended with proof\n\n* Democrat Carter presidency - no corruption\n\n* Republican Reagan/Bush presidencies - Iran Contra and World Bank corruption; ended with proof\n\n*Democrat Clinton presidency - no corruption; never proved any of the things they accused him of - he actually was impeached for stating he didnt have sexual relations with a woman who gave him a bj because he (like a lot of men) didn't believe a bj was sex. Ironically he was impeached for this when he was answering an irrelevant question on the stand for a DIFFERENT accusation. Was a complete setup. And they never found any proof for any of those charges.\n\n* Republican Bush Jr presidency - so far I think it's being called culture of corruption because its his entire administration involved. \n\nWhat I am surprised at is that Rove is going to get away with it.
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See short answer from Sully already posted.  Under trial for "high crimes and misdemeanors" YOU BET YOUR SWEET ASS HE COULD!  If zippergate qualifies, taking away guaranteed constiutional rights from Americans privacy via passage and reauthorization of the Patriot Act (specifically section 213 and 215 which deal with "sneak and peak provisions" and the expansion of access to citizen's private medical records.)  SCREW THAT!
415204
Watch the Texas law suit close. If Demos win yes, he will be impeached. If Republicans win or pay off the judge no, he will not be impeached. He could still face trial over the leak of a CIA agents name. He will never see prison, even for treason which it was in fact. I see you read.\nHisbushyness just put out the propaganda that reports of the planing of a nuke attack on Iran were "wild Speculation" so now we know it's the truth since Hisbushyness always lies.
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I think Republicans will stoop to any level to hold on to power and wealth. In the past year the FBI had 600 agents who worked 2200 public corruption cases. These led to 650 arrests and 1000 indictments with 800 convictions. The FBI now claims "there is more corruption in Washington then ever imaginable". They just added the fourth 20 member agent squad in the Washington office to deal with Corruption in Congress.   Washington now has the largest number of FBI tapped cell phones in the nation.
627969
Absolutely...but I doubt it'll happen in this administration. If you haven't noticed, they are incapible of admiting they made a mistake anywhere at any time....but they sure have plenty of excuses and spin to throw around.
538860
this man has no shame, he's acted as though he was above the law for years now, and now he's getting his just dues.  He must have lied under oath and for that he committed an act of treason to out Valerie Plame.  If Bush does not cut him off, then he too should be jailed as a conspirator and an obstructor of justice.  Cheney's done too.
117501
I have to agree with Anna.  Why would you hope for corruption in either party?  As a good american you would want what is best for this country.  You would hope that there would be no curruption with Libby.  I can sense the glee in your tone.  How evil is that? And what happened with "innocent until proven guilty"???? Or does that not apply to the republican party??
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no, the information will never be de-classified, unless a real attempt to get to the bottom is performed 100 years from now.  I think our government knows more than they let on, but that does not mean bush will be charged.\nI think he needs to be charged for going into Irag with lies and manipulated data. (10 year old data)
809267
Nope both parties are equally corrupt and it matters not who is charge.The truth about this will never be fully known although many intelligent people have theorized what happened.
70860
Everbody suspects it, of course, but probably damfew could prove it, and a weak House, in bringing up charges of impeachment against the Evil Cheney cannot count on a Republican senate to toss Cheney out. (Same goes for Bush.)
1077510
Of course he got away with it.  No matter what happened, GW would have pardon the creep anyway.  I beleive that Karl Rove and Cheney were directly involved and should be tried for treason.
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I was originally as surprised by this unexpected announcement last Friday as you were, planksheer. But as one of your subsequent questions indicates, we may have the answer: the "new" Watergate scandal. I think goss was up to his neck in the illegal gambling and prostitution ring that was being operated by these upper level ANP swine and bush threw him over the side as soon as his intelligence people made him aware of the facts -- and especially the consequences. \n\nThat said, bush may well not have been happy with his hand-picked appointee's track record at the agency. Reports suggest goss routinely butted heads with old guard CIA officials who basically refused to cooperate with him (and who can blame them?). Clandestine organizations like that operate best when upper level officials are more or less on the same page and no one is out to make waves or set himself up as potentate, as goss apparently attempted to do. We should know more about all of this as leaks begin spouting (i.e., very soon).\n\nAnd I share your concerns about this new appointee, gen. michael hayden. He is thick as thieves with Dr. Evil (aka dick cheney) and that alone is enough for me to wish him to never make it out of committee. The fact that he headed up the illegal domestic spying program would, in normal times, be enough for him not even to be under consideration. Indeed, he'd likely be fighting his way through court trying to avoid prison time. This country -- or at least the government alleged to represent us -- in its present state is clinically insane.