Rove’s lawyer says Rove is cleared. There are other possible… one might say likely… explanations of Rove’s not being charged now. Do you think Cheney sleeps well these days?
Rove may be as capable of ratf**king Democrats now as he ever was, but his political effectiveness within the GOP is bound to be impaired. The whole process can’t have been good for his career.
As to Fitzgerald, he’s just doing what good prosecutors do. And good prosecutors don’t attempt to bring charges if they don’t have the evidence to convict. As Christy Hardin Smith of firedoglake explained (I’m paraphrasing), a prosecutor doesn’t try to indict just because the target is a total sleaze and may be guilty as sin; it’s not the prosecutor’s job to determine sleaziness.
Personally, I don’t think we’ve seen the end of this.
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