Don't expect the truth from Karl Rove - LAT Editorial

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Bush's top political aide has built his career on diverting and deceiving; he'd do the same under oath.

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Rampton was a controversial figure in Texas, and Democrats suspected that he'd been consorting with Rove for years. During the 1986 gubernatorial race, when a listening device was discovered in Rove's office, it was Rampton who investigated. No one was ever charged — and Democrats suspected that Rove planted the bug himself to distract reporters from the faltering campaign of his client, Bill Clements (who won the election).

Then, in 1989, Rampton launched a series of devastating investigations into every statewide Democratic officeholder in Texas, including Agricultural Commissioner Jim Hightower. Rove (at the time running Republican Rick Perry's campaign for that job) often leaked things to reporters, such as whose names were on subpoenas before they were issued.

So when the Texas state Senate committee found nominee Rove before it in 1991, members thought they had the power to get at the truth.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-moore23mar23,0,3813754.story?coll=la-opinion-underdog

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1. I would pay to see a Colonel Jessep moment

I can just imagine the scene: Karl Rove in Congress, under oath, being questioned about a wide variety of * abuses. Suddenly he blurts out, "You want the truth! You can't handle the truth! We're fighting a goddamned war against TAYORISTS! You bet your ass we're bending the Constitution backwards, tossing civil liberties to the curb! While you liberals are sleeping in your comfy bed at night, we're torturing these goddamned Muslims getting information on all sorts of plots!"

Follow that up with the sound of handcuffs being placed on Fat Boy's wrists, while he is lead away screaming and ranting.

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3. Let'spbrilliant prosecuter and some psyops folks prepare the

questions and prepare the senators. This is a game of cat and mouse.

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2. I'd thought Lee Atwater was as bad as a person could possibly get

He was just an amateur compared with Junior's BFF.