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Sometime either on or shortly after Monday this week, we all heard of interviews conducted by Special Counsel Fitzgerald's investigators.
What we weren't told by those pesky "persons" who have been leaking like New Orleans Levies lately was why.
May I propose an explanation?
Rove was, and remains, in serious legal jeopardy.
Rove would have been indicted with multiple counts, just as Libby today, but for one strategic legal move.
At the 11th hour, Rove's attorney introduced new evidence in the form of alibi's from new and previously undisclosed witnesses from the WH.
These witnesses, "associates of Karl Rove and other top White House aides," may have given sworn testimony that caused Fitzgerald to take pause and to undertake probing the testimony prior to going ahead with the multiple indictments of Rove.
Did it happen this way?
Was this a strategic attempt to alter the investigation via false witnesses?
Lets look a little closer.
Because of this legal maneuver, Rove, if not already indicted under sealed indictments by the original Grand Jury, could have taken his chances that he might be able to cast a reasonable doubt on a majority of new Grand Jurists knowing full well that the Rehnquist appointed Federal Judge Thomas Hogan, presiding over this Grand Jury investigation, would not extend the now expired Grand Jury today - not even for an additional week!
This Grand Jury was the one that personally observed Rove make false statements, commit perjury, and obstruct justice.
They saw Rove up close and saw him in serious legal jeopardy.
They witnessed his testimony and personally understood what he did.
By causing Fitzgerald to empanel a new Grand Jury, this element of Roves testimony will have been lost upon the newly empaneled Grand jurors, and Rove may be calculating that while it is only a slight advantage, that it may be the difference between being indicted and not being indicted.
It also may give him leverage in any attempt to plea to lesser charges.
Erstwhile, the false witnesses, if it is true, needed to do no more than to cast doubt by qualifying their "Johnny come lately" remarks and testimony to Fitzgerald to be merely beliefs that needed verification, but that could not be readily dismissed prior to the expiration today of the original Grand Jury.
Hence, we may soon learn that these new witnesses did little more than DeLay the Special Counsel from handing down multiple indictments of Rove today.
Or we may soon learn that a new Grand Jury won't vote in favor of some or all of the indictments which were said to be liekly by "persons close to this case."
This seems to me to have been a strategic legal maneuver designed to lessen the number and/or severity of the imminent indictments that Rove faced, knowingly.
The big smiles on Roves face today, and the ballyhooing by his fellow Republicans may look smart and confident today, but what if the indictments were already sealed?
What if the testimony were video taped by Fitzgerald, so the nuances of the lies and obstructions were preserved?
What if ordinary Americans despise this man so much that the tactic fails?
Either way, advantage Rove and his legal team for this maneuver.
However, don't be fooled.
The last laugh, I suspect will not be coming from either Rove or Cheney.
Never, ever underestimate the man from Brooklyn.
He has the right stuff and will see it through.
Look for indictments of Rove by next weekend, and potential new obstruction charges for those that sought whether upon their own free will or by pressure from the WH to diminish the impact of the Special Counsel's Grand Jury investigation over the past 22 months.
That is my opinion and you are welcomed to either agree or disagree.
Thanks.
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