Rove Wants A Do-Over

With all the talk the last few days about possibly 22 indictments to be announced iminently, is KKKarl starting to feel the heat? Reuters reports that Karl Rove is requesting to testify once again before the GJ. President George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, plans to testify again before a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity, his lawyer said on Thursday. Word has it that Fitzgerald has agreed to let him testify but with no guarantee, and or limit on the questions that can be asked. Lawrence O'donnell has an interesting take and prediction in a post over at Huffington Post 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." Prediction: at least three high level Bush Administration personnel indicted and possibly one or more very high level unindicted co-conspirators In an Update to his post, after the announcement of Rove testifying for a second time, O'Donnell writes: What this means is Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin, believes his client is defintely going to be indicted. So, Luskin is sending Rove back into the grand jury to try to get around the prosecutor and sell his innocence directly to the grand jurors. Legal defense work doesn't get more desperate than this. The prosecutor is happy to let Rove go under oath again--without his lawyer in the room--and try to wiggle out of the case. The prosecutor has every right to expect that Rove's final under-oath grilling will either add a count or two to the indictment or force Rove to flip and testify against someone else. Oh to be a fly on the wall in that GJ room, and watch and hear Bush's brain try and talk his way out of trouble.