What comes next for Karl Rove?
So what will become of Karl Rove? At the press conference that just ended, reporters tried every way imaginable to get Patrick Fitzgerald to explain his plans for the president’s chief political advisor. Fitzgerald gave them virtually nothing. He said reporters were trying to read “tea leaves” he wasn’t giving, and he reminded them that they’re not “supposed” to know what’s going on with a grand jury. Here’s what we know, or at least what we think we know. Over the course of the last week, the New York Times reported repeatedly that Rove had been advised that he “may be in serious legal jeopardy.” The Washington Post reported that one of Fitzgerald’s prosecutors was still asking a former White House aide about Rove as late as this week. And Roll Call reported that Fitzgerald met personally with Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, on Tuesday.
