January 26, 2007
Rove May Have to Answer Questions
by Mike Sheehan
President Bush’s top political consultant, Karl Rove, could testify in the much-publicized trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Michael Isikoff reports in a Newsweek web exclusive.
“White House anxiety is mounting over the prospect that top officials–including deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and counselor Dan Bartlett–may be forced to provide potentially awkward testimony in the perjury and obstruction trial” of Libby, writes Isikoff.
Rove and Bartlett have both already received subpoenas from defense lawyers for Libby, Isikoff quotes lawyers related to the case as saying.
The article states that while it’s not guaranteed that Rove and Bartlett will be called, chances rose this week after Libby’s lawyer “laid out a defense resting on the idea that his client … had been made a ’scapegoat’ to protect Rove.”
Read More at Raw Story and Newsweek
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