University of Buffalo might want to think about who Edwards is going to debate now…

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/384676.html

Sept. 26th. Man, that’s a long time to have to wait.

Or, maybe they could move up the date. Wouldn’t be kosher to have KKKarl hauled off the stage by police in the middle of the debate.

Woo hoo! Debate on!

The bit that offends you as to ability to “cure” the problem applies historically only to perjury, not false statements.

Precisely.

but that by whipping out that take he managed to not only get himself off the charging hook for the underlying crime(s), but also somehow simultaneously undercut Fitz’s perception of strength as to false statements charges. There is an old, and originally common law based, principle as to perjury about ability to cure the perjury if you do so before the matter has exited the grand jury. That doesn’t really apply to false statements to federal officers charges though, and those are the ones that I have always focused on as to Rove.

Well, here’s a situation where your expertise in criminal law is so far beyond my own knowledge that I don’t actually understand the parts that I’ve bolded in this passage.

So, basically Rove could lie his ass off (and delay things) as long as the GJ was being held? And then as long as he came clean at the last moment, he was still legally off the hook? (Sounds like a technicality that makes my blood boil; do I correctly understand you here?)

However, even if he’s ‘off the hook’ for lying to the GJ, he’s still ‘on the hook’ for lying to the FBI, correct? And if that’s the case, then why wasn’t he changed for that…? Does he ALSO get a free hall pass if he corrects what he told the FBI?

Also, I can’t see any live video over at “Meet the Bloggers”… am I missing something? Or will they wait until the show is over to post streaming video…? (I thought they were going to stream it live, but I don’t get a signal… maybe it’s a Safari issue…?)

I think it’s more likely to do with whatever VIveca Novak said to Luskin.
Until that point, Rove continued to claim he was innocent.

(I’ve been wondering whether all the new features and new readers are making the existing squirrels pretty darn tired. But I figure as long as the servers are getting one hell of a workout, that means lots of activity at FDL group. Which is so great.)

I’m going to be chuckling all morning over my vision of tired squirrels racing around the server cluster ;-))

Folks, I have been tough on Fitz in the past because I thought he should have charged Rove at the time he charged Libby (still do, but whoever upthread said the case against Rove was stronger that Libby is nuts, it most certainly was not, but I think it was viable from what I have seen); but this piling on Fitz because of this report by Marcy is just flat out ill taken. Fitzgerald himself couldn’t do squat about this, and the structure in the AG/DOJ would have been chomping at the bit to shut Fitz down altogether if he made the wrong move. You really have to consider the larger dynamics of the deal.

Remember back in June, when Fitzgerald publicly suggested he had more details to share with Congress about Rove’s efforts to get him fired?

The link here is to the wrong post.