Rove's misdeeds are catching up to him

Is Karl Rove going to skate on paying for his crimes? Maybe not. dday reports how the net is closing in around him.

CLOSING IN... Karl Rove has been extremely slippery with what he was able to get away with while in service at the White House, but over the past couple weeks events have probably made him gulp and pull the collar away from his neck a couple times. Same with his former bosses.

dday then goes on to detail some of Rove's currently pressing problems:

• Most recently we have have Scott McClellan revealing that Bush and Cheney gave the go-ahead to Scooter Libby to selectively leak contents of the 2002 Iraq NIE. It was this release of the classified NIE that resulted in revealing the identity of an active CIA agent, Valerie Plame. This leads to the next item:


• U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (The federal Prosecutor in the Plame case) might be ready to talk about allegations that Rove was working to get him fired before he could prosecute Tony Rezko.


• Then there is the pressure growing on Rove for answers regarding his role in the railroading of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman.


• The railroading of Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman is rapidly unravelling, and all indicatrions are the Karl Rove was in the center of that action.

The dday article gives details of each of those investigations. Here is how he wraps his article up:

This leads back to Rove - the Siegelman case, the politicization of US Attorney positions, firing prosecutors who wouldn't play ball, leaking classified information in the Plame case. Rove is a slippery creature. But there are a lot of investigations all happening at once.

If dday is right, it's about damned time.