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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:16 PM
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McClatchy: White House says Rove relayed complaints about prosecutors
Edited on Sun Mar-11-07 09:19 PM by Pirate Smile
White House says Rove relayed complaints about prosecutors

By Ron Hutcheson, Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged on Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove served as a conduit for complaints about federal prosecutors as House investigators declared their intention to question him about any role he may have played in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Rove relayed complaints from Republican officials and others to the Justice Department and the White House counsel's office. She said Rove, the chief White House political operative, specifically recalled passing along complaints about former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias and may have mentioned the grumblings about Iglesias to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Iglesias says he lost his job as the top federal prosecutor in New Mexico after rebuffing Republican pressure to speed his investigation of Democratic officials in the state.
Rove said he did not suggest that any of the U.S. attorneys be forced to resign, Perino said.

The new details about Rove's involvement in the firings emerged as the top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee declared their interest in talking to him. The committee is trying to determine whether the firings were part of an effort to exert political influence over federal prosecutions.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16878479.htm
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bigworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:18 PM
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1. This story's starting to get legs
... who'da thunk?!
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:21 PM
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2. Why, he was just passing the word along!
No harm, no foul - he was just the messenger. He didn't mean for all those people to be fired, he didn't suggest it at all.

Don't shoot the messenger! :sarcasm:
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jaxx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:24 PM
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3. Rove is everywhere getting B's legacy in order.
What is his title now? If I remember, he was busted down when the Scooter deal hit the headlines for a trial.

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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:26 PM
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4. Somebody got an angry call from the White House on Saturday.
In an interview Saturday with McClatchy Newspapers, Allen Weh, the New Mexico Republican party chairman, said he complained in 2005 about Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for presidential adviser Karl Rove. Weh said he followed up with Rove in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.

"Is anything ever going to happen to that guy?" Weh said he asked Rove. "He's gone," Rove said, according to Weh.

Weh told McClatchy he doesn't know whether Rove was directly involved in the firing or was merely advised of the decision. Later Saturday, however, he told the Associated Press that "Rove has little or nothing to do with this." Weh also told the AP that their conversation came "after the fact, after the termination had occurred."



http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/11/MNGGVOJBVF1.DTL&type=politics
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Kagemusha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:34 PM
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5. Rove didn't suggest the US Attorneys be forced to resign, huh?
No, he just mentioned that they're political enemies of the Republican Party according to the state branches.

No implication whatsoever.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:48 PM
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6. Can the Committee call Domenici and the Rep as witnesses?
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:51 PM
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7. Riiight, just being 'helpful', huh?
And I suppose he was 'shocked' to learn of the firings, right?
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 10:47 PM
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8. Landrieu, Pryor, Salazar, 2 Nelsons,
and Lieberman. But primarily Blue Dogs. The DLC is a problem, the Blue Dogs have always been the bigger problem of the two.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 04:31 AM
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9. K&R ... what a guy that Karl is, a real citizen. n/t
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lligrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 04:44 AM
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10. Rove Just Happens To Be Involved Again
Coincidence? Only for the really gullible.
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Marnieworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 09:14 AM
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11. He didn't suggest someone be fired like Tony Soprano never tells someone to whack someone
It's all understood and he is so arrogant to think that this will fly.

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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 11:05 AM
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12. I still want to know when we can start calling them fascists
In the last week we've discovered that they fire US attorneys that prosecute Repubs, pay US attorneys to persecute Dems, and admit to spying on US citizens for political reasons. Why can't we call them fascists yet?
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dsweet Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 11:15 AM
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13. Who will rid me of these meddlesome prosecutors? nt
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 11:41 AM
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14. Hmm. Could this be the final straw for the Rovester? After all, if he is going to pull this shit,
isn't he supposed to make sure there are no WH fingerprints on the knife used to do the back stabbing?
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donkeyotay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 12:30 PM
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15. While they're investigating the WH's playing politics with justice
Maybe they should find out if the WH put the alteration to the Patriot Act in. As long as the unitary executive is playing God, commander and judge, he might as well be playing legislator, too. What creep crept in and crapped on representative democracy? Rove?

What a bunch of crooks and gangsters. What thieves and thugs. What trash packers the GOP have become.
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