Rove avoids indictment, keeps focus on job
WASHINGTON - The unimaginable did not happen, and few breathed any easier than President Bush.
Karl Rove escaped being charged in the CIA leak case, ensuring that Bush will retain the everyday counsel of the shrewd and trusted aide who helped create his political persona, steer him into the Oval Office and mastermind his White House tenure.
Now free of personal legal jeopardy — although he still may have to testify at a trial — the president's all-around uber-aide can focus on trying to prevent Democrats from capturing the House or Senate.
The implication here is that Rove was guilty, he just didn't get charged with anything. Last night I heard some pundit or politician (I don't remember who) get quoted on the radio as saying (I'm paraphrasing from memory) that "the American justice system has three states: Innocent, guilty and unindicted."
That is total baloney. In this country you are either innocent or you are found guilty by a judge/jury in a court of law. Karl Rove and his actions have been thoroughly investigated over the course multiple years (at the expense of tens of millions of tax dollars) and there is simply no evidence of any wrong-doing that warrants an indictment, let alone a conviction.