Just one week before he made his fifth appearance before the grand jury, Rove lost his position as Bush's chief policy coordinator in a White House shakeup. Sources close to the investigation have told reporters that Fitzgerald is now seeking an indictment of Rove for perjury committed in previous grand jury testimony and for lying to FBI investigators. Rove withdrew his original denials that he had no conversations with reporters concerning the identity of Valerie Plame after he learned that Time magazine's Matt Cooper would testify that Rove was a source for his Time story on Plame.

In early April, Fitzgerald filed court documents revealing that indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Lewis Libby testified that Dick Cheney had told him that President Bush personally authorized the release of classified intelligence in July 2003 to refute critics of his administration's justification for war. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with investigative reporter Jason Leopold, who explains why he believes special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is now seeking the indictment of Karl Rove.

Read Jason Leopold's articles online at www.truthout.org. Leopold's just published book is titled, "News Junkie."

Related links:

• "Fitzgerald to Seek Indictment of Rove," by Jason Leopold, www.truthout.org
• "Outed U.S. Spy was Researching Iran Nuclear Program," Agence France Presse, May 2, 2006
• "Bush and Cheney Face Legal Jeopardy in Covert CIA Agent Outing Investigation,"Interview with Robert Parry, investigative reporter, conducted by Scott Harris, Between The Lines Week Ending April 28, 2006
• "As CIA Leak Investigation Concludes, Critics Say Probe Should Examine Possible Presidential Crimes Around Iraq War," Interview with John Bonifaz, constitutional attorney, conducted by Scott Harris, Between The Lines Week Ending Oct. 10, 2005
• "The Downing Street Memos and Valerie Plame-CIA Scandal Reveal a White House Bent on Misleading Public on Rationale for Iraq War," Interview with John Bonifaz, constitutional attorney, conducted by Scott Harris, Between The Lines Week Ending July 29, 2005
• "Despite Earlier Denials, Presidential Adviser Karl Rove Played Key Role in Illegal Disclosure of CIA Agent's Identity," interview with Robert Jensen, professor of journalism at the University of Texas, conducted by Scott Harris, Between The Lines, Week Ending June 22, 2005
• "Critics Question Credibility of FBI Investigation into White House Leak Exposing CIA Operative," Between The Lines, Oct. 17, 2003 interview with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, conducted by Scott Harris. (Scott Harris won a Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists award for the original half-hour "Counterpoint" interview from which this excerpt originated, in 2003.)

The driving force behind the outpouring of activism in the immigrant community was the passage of legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives that would criminalize the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. and those who assist them. Negotiations over less draconian immigration reform proposals that could lead to legalization are pending in the Senate.

The immigration protests coincided with May Day, the international workers holiday borne out of the struggle for an eight-hour workday, the 1886 Chicago Haymarket bombing, and the subsequent hanging of four activists. In recent years, unions in the U.S. have been drawing closer to the struggle for immigrant rights, not least because these millions of unorganized workers could help provide new members to a labor movement that has been on the decline over the last three decades. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Michael Zweig, professor of economics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life. Zweig examines the relationship between America's newly mobilized immigrant community and the labor movement.

Learn more about the immigrant rights movement by visiting the www.immigrantsolidarity.org website.

Related links:

• "Halliburton's Immigrant Detention Centers," Ruth Conniff, The Progressive, April 18, 2006
• The Center for Study of Working Class Life's annual conference titled, "How Class Works," takes place this year from June 8-10. Visit the Center's website at http://naples.cc.stonybrook.edu/CAS/wcm.nsf/pages/conference4

In the latest of many decisions that put politics ahead of science, the Bush administration's Food and Drug Administration in mid-April issued a ruling that "no sound scientific studies" support the medical use of marijuana. This contradicts a 1999 report issued by the Institute of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences, which is the nation's most prestigious scientific advisory body. That review found marijuana to be useful for treating nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy used in cancer treatment, and for reducing the wasting effect of AIDS. Eleven states have legalized the medicinal use of marijuana, but the Drug Enforcement Administration and the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy have opposed those laws.