Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.

During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.

Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, did not return a call for comment. Sources said Fitzgerald was in Washington, DC, Friday and met with Luskin for about 15 hours to go over the charges against Rove, which include perjury and lying to investigators about how and when Rove discovered that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative and whether he shared that information with reporters, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said.

It was still unknown Saturday whether Fitzgerald charged Rove with a more serious obstruction of justice charge. Sources close to the case said Friday that it appeared very likely that an obstruction charge against Rove would be included with charges of perjury and lying to investigators.

An announcement by Fitzgerald is expected to come this week, sources close to the case said. However, the day and time is unknown. Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the special prosecutor was unavailable for comment. In the past, Samborn said he could not comment on the case.

I seem to recall my buddy Jay Tea saying that this would not happen. Looks like the Perp Walk is coming real soon....

You know, I have said several times that History would be the judge of this administration. And I stand by that statement. The accellerating pace of errossion of Bush support, even by key supporters over the last two years, is a testament to the fact that the ship if not sinking, is listing badly. And regardless of the final outcome, I will take pride in having stayed at my post. I salute the Special Prosecutor. He IS doing his job. And while I know that the usual suspects will soon begin a smear campaign against him, I am confident that he will stand on the law... Unlike the people who we elected who supervised the building of this corrupt house of cards...

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Posted by: Jay Tea at May 14, 2006 05:05 AM