Report: White House Official May Have Flipped
talkleft Oct 18, 2005 –
Raw Story reports that the New York Daiy News will report in Tuesday’s edition that a high level White House official has flipped and is now helping Fitzgerald.
We’ll know in a few hours what the Daily News has to say, but I predict if it’s true, it’s Karl Rove who flipped on Friday and gave up Cheney. Karl Rove attended most of the meetings of the White House Iraq Group and according to Raw Story’s report, the flip has something to do with a source now advising that Cheney personally attended two of the meetings where Kristof’s May, 2003 New York Times article and Pincus’s June 2003 WaPo article on Joe Wilson were discussed. Cheney has said he didn’t know about Wilson until after Wilson’s July 6 op-ed appeared.
Why would Rove’s latest grand jury appearance have taken 4 1/2 hours if all he was talking about was his conversation with Matthew Cooper and e-mail to Stephen Hadley?
UPDATE:
From the Washington Post:
As the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent’s name hurtles to an apparent conclusion, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has zeroed in on the role of Vice President Cheney’s office, according to lawyers familiar with the case and government officials. The prosecutor has assembled evidence that suggests Cheney’s long-standing tensions with the CIA contributed to the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame.