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...Karl Rove was sitting on a Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore to Manchester, N.H., waiting for other passengers to board on Monday afternoon when he got a message on his BlackBerry from his lawyer, Robert Luskin. Rove phoned back and got the news he had been hoping to receive since at least October 2004, when he first testified before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson...
...Luskin had just received a fax from Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the case, saying that he was formally notifying Luskin that absent any unexpected developments, he does not anticipate seeking any criminal charges against Rove...
...White House senior adviser and deputy chief of staff is glad the matter is ended and the burden lifted, say those close to him. Republican officials today were saying more freely what they long had thought: that Rove's conversations about Plame - whose husband, former ambassador, Joseph Wilson, was attacking the Administration case for war in Iraq - were nothing more than the effort to shape and beat back news stories that happens in any White House on any day. But Republicans were careful not to take a public victory lap, instead praising Fitzgerald's diligence...
...Rove, widely viewed as the dominant active Republican strategist, was interviewed twice by FBI agents and made five appearances before the grand jury. Defense lawyers said that frequency had made it appear the prosecution had an acute interest in his statements, and that did not appear to be a good sign. But Rove and his friends had become increasingly optimistic that he would not be indicted, and he had recently been making frequent appearances at political events and on Bush's road trips...
...Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, tells TIME that the prolonged inquiry reflected Fitzgerald's legendary thoroughness. "I think he wanted to have some level of confidence that he had not only turned over every stone, he'd turned over every pebble," Luskin said. "Karl is obviously relieved. He felt, and I certainly believe quite correctly, that he'd done his very best to cooperate as best he could, right from the beginning. This has taken an enormous toll on him and his family, to be in the center of something like this and to have these things said about...