WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Presidential adviser Karl Rove spent four hours in his fourth appearance before a federal grand jury investigating the disclosure of a CIA agent's identity.
Rove emerged from the federal courthouse in Washington at about 1 p.m. and said nothing to reporters as he was driven away, The New York Times reported.
Lawyer Robert D. Luskin said that the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, "has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges." Luskin also said that Rove had been told that additional testimony would not be needed.
The request for additional testimony from Rove, President Bush's deputy chief of staff, refocused attention on the role that he and other top White House officials played in discussing CIA officer Valerie Plame with reporters.
Fitzgerald has interviewed dozens of Bush administration officials, and some familiar with the prosecutor's questions believe he is looking also at the possibility of obstruction of justice, perjury or conspiracy charges in the case.
The White House has denied that its top officials revealed Plame's identity.
