{"id":7263,"date":"2006-04-28T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2006-04-28T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T13:10:33","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-fitzmas-everywhere-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-fitzmas-everywhere-you-go\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas, everywhere you go…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember all of those months that went by in which we heard practically nothing about [tag]Karl Rove[\/tag], [tag]Patrick Fitzgerald[\/tag], and the [tag]Plame[\/tag] scandal? Well, they appear to be over.<\/p>\n

MSNBC reported last night that Rove “described his three and a half hour meeting with a grand jury as grueling, and is more worried about being prosecuted than ever<\/a>.” A Rove lawyer said the presidential adviser described his fifth [tag]grand jury[\/tag] appearance as “hell.”<\/p>\n

MSNBC’s David Shuster appeared live on Keith Olbermann’s 8pm show this evening and stated that Rove was surprised by the tone of the questions as well as the length of time he was required to testify.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The New York Times added<\/a> that Fitzgerald is expected to decide “in the next two to three weeks” whether to charge Rove with [tag]perjury[\/tag].<\/p>\n

With the completion of Mr. Rove’s fifth appearance before the grand jury on Wednesday, Mr. Fitzgerald is now believed to have assembled all of the facts necessary to determine whether to seek an [tag]indict[\/tag]ment of Mr. Rove or drop the case.<\/p>\n

Lawyers in the case said Mr. Fitzgerald would spend the coming days reviewing the transcript of Mr. Rove’s three hours of testimony on Wednesday and weigh it against his previous statements to the grand jury as well as the testimony of others, including a sworn statement that Mr. Rove’s lawyer gave to the prosecutor earlier this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Bloomberg added<\/a> that “people familiar with the case” said Fitzgerald “declined to give [Rove] any assurance after his testimony that he won’t be charged.”<\/p>\n

The grand jury meets again this morning. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember all of those months that went by in which we heard practically nothing about [tag]Karl Rove[\/tag], [tag]Patrick Fitzgerald[\/tag], and the [tag]Plame[\/tag] scandal? Well, they appear to be over. MSNBC reported last night that Rove “described his three and a half hour meeting with a grand jury as grueling, and is more worried about being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}