Jason Leopold reported at Truthout that Karl Rove was to be indicted in a matter of days if not hours. The indictment never came down and across the net TO and Leopold appeared to have a credibility problem. It was said that they were set up, that internet journalism can’t be relied upon, that Leopold is basically a liberal blogger not to be trusted with objective journalism.
Today, over a month since the Leopold story, CNN (and all the other major corporate news services) is reporting that Fitzgerald will not be indicting Rove at all.
I have yet to find any mention of what happened to the indictment, up until now. In an article titled, Sealed vs. Sealed in which Leopold reports on a case that popped up at the same time he reported that the Rove indictment was going to come down and which is uncharacteristically labeled Sealed vs. Sealed as opposed to the pro forma US vs. Sealed, used to conceal the identity of a high profile person in a sensitive investigation.
Leopold’s article makes no claim but the implication is clear: Sealed vs. Sealed is/was the Rove indictment and a deal was cut not to move on it. Disinfo? Time will tell. To most netizens, this issue is at the heart of the citizen journalism vs. corporate journalism issue. The charge among the ‘net Left was that Leopold was set up by the Right in order to discredit his reporting, Truthout, bloggers and anyone on the net not a corporate news entity. Will yesterday’s relatively quiet Sealed vs. Sealed story be the redemption of Truthout and Leopold?
