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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 12:34 AM
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"Prediction: at least three high level Bush Admin. personnel indicted"
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Lawrence O'Donnell: Plamegate: The Next Step
Thu Oct 6, 5:33 PM ET


If Karl Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin, is still as easy to read as he has been since I broke the story that his client was Matt Cooper's source, then we now know that Rove has received a target letter from Patrick Fitzgerald. How do we know it? Luskin refuses to deny it.

Fitzgerald does not have to send Rove or anyone else a target letter before indicting him. The only reason to send target letters now is that Fitzgerald believes one or more of his targets will flip and become a prosecution witness at the pre-indictment stage. A veteran prosecutor told me, "If Fitzgerald is sending target letters at the end of his investigation, those are just invitations to come in and work out a deal."

Prosecutors prefer pre-indictment plea bargaining to post-indictment because they have more to offer you, like not being indicted at all or downgrading your status to unindicted co-conspirator. And pre-indictment plea bargaining can greatly enrich the indictments that the prosecutor then obtains. If, for example, Fitzgerald has a weak case against, say, Scooter Libby, imagine how much Rove's cooperation might strengthen that case.

If no one RSVPs to Fitzgerald's invitations, look for indictments as early as next week. If anyone does sit down with Fitzgerald, he will probably have to move to extend the grand jury, which now has only thirteen working days left in its term. Prediction: at least three high level Bush Administration personnel indicted and possibly one or more very high level unindicted co-conspirators.

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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 05:06 AM
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1. I predict this prediction is on the money.
Prediction: at least three high level Bush Administration personnel indicted and possibly one or more very high level unindicted co-conspirators.
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 05:36 AM
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2. Rover
Red Rover
Red Rover
Let Karl bend over

Rove, Libby, and DeLay.

But which one will be Lucky Pierre?


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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 10:19 AM
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3. can't count delay...
he's not part of administration. who else?
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 12:10 PM
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5. maybe Ari?
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johnaries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 03:52 PM
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9. Cheney. n/t
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 01:01 PM
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10. Bush? n/t
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 10:57 AM
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4. kick
:kick:
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 12:43 PM
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6. kick...
all their asses out of office.
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 01:12 PM
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7. Woo hoo!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAA AHHHHHHHH!!!!! (This is my cheap imitaion of the Dean Sream)
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-05 01:24 PM
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8. looks pretty authentic n/t
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