Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has asked the grand jury investigating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to indict Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and Bush's Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, lawyers close to the investigation tell RAW STORY.
Fitzgerald has also asked the jury to indict Libby on a second charge: knowingly outing a covert operative, the lawyers said. They said the prosecutor believes that Libby violated a 1982 law that made it illegal to unmask an undercover CIA agent.
Those close to the investigation said Rove was offered a deal Tuesday to plead guilty to perjury for a reduced charge. Rove's lawyer was told that Fitzgerald would drop an obstruction of justice charge if his client agreed not to contest allegations of perjury, they said.
Rove declined to plead guilty to the reduced charge, the sources said, indicating through his attorney Robert Luskin that he intended to fight the charges. A call placed to Luskin was not returned.
Anybody who's spent a little time in the real world knows this: If you did the crime, TAKE THE DEAL! When you get found guilty, and you will, the penalty will be more severe for taking up the court's time with a bullshit defense.
Of course, if you didn't do the crime you should fight it. Chances are that you will be convicted anyway.
As long as Rove is convicted, I don't give a shit whether or not he actually did it, although I am sure he did. I don't care. He has to go down. It's the first step on the way to the top.
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