So Friday night I decided to cruise by a couple of my favorite blogs to see if anyone had any new updates or anything I hadn't heard about, and the first thing that caught my attention was this short post from Allahpundit at Hot Air: Truthout.org: Rove has told WH he will be indicted.

Yeah, I know. I feel dirty linking them, but there’s really no downside. If they’re right, you heard it here first, and if they’re not, we get to mock them for being wrong.

Here’s the report.

The "report" is by far left outfit Truthout.org, and opens with this:

Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job when the special counsel publicly announces the charges against him, according to sources.

Details of Rove's discussions with the president and Bolten have spread through the corridors of the White House where low-level staffers and senior officials were trying to determine how the indictment would impact an administration that has been mired in a number of high-profile political scandals for nearly a year, said a half-dozen White House aides and two senior officials who work at the Republican National Committee.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, sources confirmed Rove's indictment is imminent. These individuals requested anonymity saying they were not authorized to speak publicly about Rove's situation. A spokesman in the White House press office said they would not comment on "wildly speculative rumors."

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I feel the same way as Allahpundit. I don't know if it's right, but here's the information, you can make what you will of it. But if they're wrong, boy do they deserve a thorough trashing.

Again, that was Friday night, so my assumption was that if these Truthout jokers got the info, and the story is true, then certainly the leakers would be leaking to others as well and it would be known throughout all of the media by Saturday night. Seeing as it's now early Monday morning, that was not the case. So while we all still "wait and see", I've got to question the credibility here. Again, why would they be the only ones leaked to?

Of course that Friday post claimed that Rove had warned the White House that he would be indicted. TruthOut (again, by themselves) posted on Saturday that the indictments had been served! Their post, unde the headline: Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators begins:

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 business 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.

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So again, no confirmation from any other media about getting any similar leaks. Just this web site that I assume is unknown to virtually any non-blogger or far lefty. So I'll still be open to the possiblity that they were leaked to, but question why if that's true, that being such small timers, that anyone would choose to leak to them only?

So Allahpundit tossed up his own quick post to notify the masses that Truth(maybe)Out is now claiming that indictments have been brought down, and links to Rick Moran's round-up which all but seems to debunk TruthOut's claims. This isn't with absolute certainty, but it seems just short of it. Check it out now.

Rick links to an American Thinker piece by Clarice Feldman, that argues not only that Rove was probably not indicted, but that the case against libby may be falling apart. Rick says that Clarice has been spot on in Plamegate so far, and I'll have to take his word on it and not pretend to have been following Clarice's coverage.

Rick also links to a piece by the National Review's Byron York that makes an even more convincing case, that Rove hasn't been indicted.

So did I. I talked with Rove defense spokesman Mark Corallo, who told me the story was completely baseless. Part of our conversation:

Did Patrick Fitzgerald come to Patton Boggs for 15 hours Friday?
No.
Did he come to Patton Boggs for any period of time Friday?
No.
Did he meet anywhere else with Karl Rove's representatives?
No.
Did he communicate in any way with Karl Rove's representatives?
No.
Did he inform Rove or Rove's representatives that Rove had been indicted?
No.

So there seems to be nothing to the story, certainly nothing which any other reporter has seen fit to report. Which raises a question: What is going on here? The journalists who checked out the story, quite properly, did not repeat Leopold's bad information. But for some media blogger out there, it might be reasonable to ask: Where are these reports coming from?

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Hmm... Seems that TruthOut might change their name to TruthOut..OnALimb, because if they are totally wrong here, it's going to look pretty bad, especially after all of the left's minions ran with the story, despite a lack of any confirmation.

Check out the Yahoo! and Google blog search results for 'rove indicted'. Also, check out this Technorati search on the same term.

It's hard to say what search results you'll see because the left has been running wild with this one, so posts continue to roll in ever since TruthOut started this whole thing on Friday. They all posted without a single confirmation from anyone. I'm happy to see a question mark in some post titles that say "Karl Rove Indicted?", but those with question marks are few and far between. I'm expecting Dan Rather to break in on TV with a special report: "I was down at the pond looking for a frog with side pockets to come down to the shooting range with me, when one of my unimpeachable sources told me that Karl Rove has been indicted. If this turns out that this source lied after a few weeks of me denying it, I'll then still have to ask whether the information was still true.. Stay tuned."

Again, I have no inside information here, but I'm not claiming to. I'm just saying that if these TruthOut folks don't deliver in one week or less, this political pizza is going straight to their thighs. I'm sorry, I don't even know what that's suppost to mean, it just came out. What I meant to say is that if this turns out to not be true, TruthOut and all of their followers deserve an internet beating from the rest of us in the blogosphere.

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