‘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.’ 

Karl Rove Indicted On
Charges Of Perjury, Lying To Investigators