Federal prosecutors have decided not to charge President Bush’s top advisor Karl Rove with any crimes in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. No official statement has been made by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. But Rove’s attorney says Fitzgerald announced the decision in a letter to him on Monday. Rove had been at the center of the investigation for over two years and had been forced to testify on five occasions to a federal grand jury on his role in the outing of Plame, who was the wife of Iraq war critic Ambassador Joseph Wilson. To date only one person in the Bush administration has been indicted in the leak case — Lewis Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff. We’ll have more on the decision in a few minutes.
Report: Karl Rove Won’t Be Indicted in CIA Leak Case
HeadlineJun 13, 2006