Rove deposed over USA firings on Tuesday

(h/t Raw Story):

Judiciary Chairman won’t comment on what was asked, said
Former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was deposed by lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee, Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) said in an interview Tuesday.

Rove's deposition took place over a period of some eight and a half hours, beginning at 10 a.m. and ending around 6:30 p.m, ET — and the lawyers took several breaks, Conyers said.

Conyers wouldn’t say what Rove told investigators or whether Rove would appear before his committee again.

“He was deposed today,” Conyers said in an interview with Politico. “That's all I can tell you.”

In an exchange with Raw Story in February, Rove's Washington, D.C. attorney, Robert Luskin, said Rove won't invoke his Fifth Amendment right to protect himself from self-incrimination, when he testified about the firing of nine US Attorneys and the prosecution of the former governor.

There’s “been speculation that he would decline to answer questions on Fifth Amendment grounds,” Luskin said. “That’s a personal privilege; he will not assert it.”

Update:

NBC: Congress mum on Rove testimony

NBC News’ Mike Viqueira reports that Congress is keeping mum the day after Rove gave testimony.

Viqueira writes, “House side sources are being very tight lipped about the Karl Rove testimony. Under the agreement reached earlier this year, none of the participants are allowed to speak publicly until all interviews have been concluded and transcripts have been released.”

Luskin released the following statement to NBC News:

The agreement setting up the interviews contemplated that they would remain entirely confidential until all the interviews were complete. Out of respect for that term of the agreement, Mr. Rove is not commenting