Getting Out Of Dodge

2:10 pm EST October 16th, 2005 | Politics | 7 Comments

Karl Rove is planning on skipping out of the Bush administration if he’s indicted.

Even before testifying last week for the fourth time before a grand jury probing the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity, Bush senior adviser Rove and others at the White House had concluded that if indicted he would immediately resign or possibly go on unpaid leave, several legal and Administration sources familiar with the thinking told TIME.

Resignation is the much more likely scenario, they say. The same would apply to I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the Vice President’s chief of staff, who also faces a possible indictment. A former White House official says Rove’s break with Bush would have to be clean no “giving advice from the sidelines” for the sake of the Administration.

Now, let’s say that Rove and/or Libby are indicted, I think it would be the moral duty of the congress to hold a major congressional hearing into the allegations of criminal activity in the executive branch – expanding the scope beyond the Plame incident (“How many times, Mister Cheney, have you or someone in your office leaked information relating to national security to the media? Three times, four times, ten times?”). And if the GOP refuses to allow hearings and subpeona power — it’s kind of hard to hold the moral high ground when you’re covering up for the indicted White House, no? Right.

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7 Responses to “Getting Out Of Dodge”

  1. buma says:
    October 16, 2005 at 2:10 pm

    So Rove is behaving like he’s innocent, right? Whatever happened to those law ‘n’ order republicans with all that “Rule Of Law” crap?

  2. SadieB says:
    October 16, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    How can Rove resign? I thought George Bush swore he would fire anyone who leaked the name of a CIA agent? Are you trying to tell me George Bush has said the thing that is not so?

  3. mr.curmudgeon says:
    October 16, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    Whatever happened to those law  n order republicans

    See above.

  4. mr.curmudgeon says:
    October 16, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    They rode off on Unicorns, into Atlantis, in an expanded effort to hunt down missing WMD’s. That, or they simply never existed in the first place.

  5. Semanticleo says:
    October 16, 2005 at 5:10 pm

    The only thing that really matters is that this is just a partisan witchhunt. And even if he’s found guilty in a court of law, he still will only be guilty of being a conservative. Because, after all, the rule of law only applies when conservatives want it to apply, somewhat arbitrarily.

  6. mr.curmudgeon says:
    October 16, 2005 at 6:10 pm

    partisan witchhunt

    …by an out of control Liberal prosecutor looking to make an name for himself by “criminalizing politics.”

    Did we cover all the talking points we’re going to be hearing for the next several news cycles?

  7. Blutodog says:
    October 16, 2005 at 8:10 pm

    Criminal activity in the Bu$h WH? How can that be isn’t this the Admin. that was bringing back Character and responsibility to governing?