Rove "simply didn't recall..."

rove may be facing perjury charges, time reports via raw story, and, along with libby, if indicted, will resign... time also claims that fitzgerald knows who the leaker was and maintains that it didn't come from the white house...

Severing his White House ties would allow Rove to fight aggressively “any bull_ charges,” says a source close to Rove, like allegations that he was part of a broad conspiracy to discredit Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson. Rove’s defense: whatever he did fell far short of that. Fitzgerald appears to be seriously weighing a perjury charge for Rove’s failure to tell grand jurors that he talked to TIME correspondent Matt Cooper about Plame, according to a person close to Rove. Rove corrected himself in a later grand jury session. If charged with perjury, he will maintain his line: he simply didn’t recall the conversation with Cooper, and told Fitzgerald as soon as he did, TIME reports.

These strategies are being shaped absent any real knowledge of what Fitzgerald might do before the grand jury’s dissolution on Oct. 28. “If he played his cards any closer to the vest they’d be in his underwear,” says a lawyer who’s a friend of the White House. But Fitzgerald’s intentions aren’t the only mystery. Another character in the drama remains unnamed: the original source for columnist Robert Novak, who wrote the first piece naming Plame. Fitzgerald, says a lawyer in the case, “knows who it is—and it’s not someone at the White House,” TIME reports.

maybe this week we're gonna find out...

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