As the Associated Press [3] and other sources [4] reported that "Karl Rove [5] escaped indictment in the (Valerie Plame [6]) CIA leak case Friday but remained under investigation," Rove "began assembling a public relations team in the event he is eventually indicted." That team includes Mark Corallo [7], a "former spokesman for the Justice Department [8]" under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft [9]. Corallo is "no stranger to high-profile defenses," wrote the Washington Post, having been "spokesman for former representative Bob Livingston [10] (R-La.), who was forced to step aside as the incoming speaker of the House in 1998 after admitting an extramarital affair." O'Dwyer's PR Daily added that [11] Corallo, the head of the Virginia-based firm Corallo Media Strategies [12], "was communications director of the House Government Reform Committee from 1999 - 2002." In February 2005, the Washington Post reported that [13] Corallo's new firm had "already bested some of the PR 'big boys' in securing some fine work on film and recording industry issues."