ROVE NOT IN PRISON YET AND PROBABLY WON'T BE EXECUTED FOR TREASON BUT HE'S BEEN INDICTED & HAS TO RESIGN FROM HIS WHITE HOUSE JOB

Patriotic Americans have been waiting all year to see if Justice still lives in America. Today Jason Leopold reports that George Bush's closest advisor-- you remember "Bush's Brain," right?-- Karl Rove, has informed the White House that he has been indicted on charges of perjury. It's a good start.

"Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove. During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning... It was still unknown Saturday whether Fitzgerald charged Rove with a more serious obstruction of justice charge. Sources close to the case said Friday that it appeared very likely that an obstruction charge against Rove would be included with charges of perjury and lying to investigators."

Rove told Bush and Bolten that the jig is up, that his goose is cooked and that he'd resign his White House job as soon as he was officially served (probably early next week). It will be difficult for Rove to balance the job he does for Bush-- manipulating elections to keep the rubber-stamp Republican congress in power-- with the pressing exigencies of keeping out of prison. Speaking about prison, one can't help but wonder if all these Republicans being indicted and tried and sentences will all be in the same prison. No one has better coverage of all things Plame/Fitzgerlad/Libby/Rove than Jane Hamsher at FireDogLake. If this case fascinates you in any way, you must bookmark Jane.