James Moore: "held accountable ... which is never a happy time for Karl"

[understandinglife]

The Knower of All-Knowing Knowledge: Karl Rove

by James Moore

July 13, 2005

As a long time observer of Karl Rove there is great entertainment in watching a rare moment of tribulation for the presidential counselor. Funny thing is, it's all happened before on a lesser scale when nobody but us obscure Texas reporters were paying attention. But if ever there were an iconic example of history's repetitive nature, our man from Utah presently carries that banner.

Back in 1991, Rove had been nominated to a seat on the Board of Regents for East Texas State University. Unfortunately, he had to undergo those pesky nomination hearings where he was to be held accountable for his previous behavior (which is never a happy time for Karl).

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Their two primary interests were an alleged bugging of Rove's office and a politically debilitating investigation into the office of Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower and other Democrats. FBI evidence later indicated the bugging of Rove's office was an inside job. Though he was never charged, during the incident Rove made the acquaintance of an FBI agent named Greg Rampton. Rampton, another Utah boy who also displayed a penchant for distrusting Democrats, later summarily launched investigations into every state wide Democratic officeholder in Texas. Rove, during the probe, leaked information about subpoaenas to reporters before they were ever issued and people I interviewed told me that they had been informed by the FBI that if they had any information on Hightower that they were to share it with Rove and he would pass it on to the investigating agent. Rove's role could easily be interpreted as acting as a filter so that the FBI was not bothered with anything unless it was damaging.

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The hallmarks of a Rove smear job are always the same: leak, lie, defame, obfuscate, and deny. He did it when he began a whisper campaign about Gov. Ann Richards' sexuality. He did it when he used surrogates in South Carolina to suggest that Sen. John McCain was mentally unstable and may have fathered a black child out of wedlock and he did it in the last election when he used the Swift Boat Veterans as a front group to proffer lies about John Kerry's time in Vietnam.

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More at the link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jim-moore/the-knower-of-allknowing_4064.html

Mr Moore thinks Rove will, once again, slime and skate.

Mr Fitzgerald likely has a different perspective or an investigation that more than one reporter characterized as "almost finished" in August of 2004, would not still be underway. And, a series of judges would likely not have enabled Mr Fitzgerald's to hold Cooper and Miller's feet to the fire.

Mr Moore, of course, has much more experience watching Rove skate, than I. I just remember how many folk, vastly more knowledgeable about Nixion than I, were still predicting in the weeks before he resigned that Nixon would finish his presidency. As I recall, Henry Kissinger was one of them.

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

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[FreedomAngel82]

1. Definitley a must read

Rove has done this before. Bush I fired him too from his campaign for something. I can't remember what it was but it was with an opponent I think. So hopefully Mr. Fitzegerald knows about all of what Rove has done in the past. If nobody has seen "Bush's Brain" it's a must see. It's on the Sundance channel sometimes.

[understandinglife]

3. "Karl Rove was fired from George Bush Sr.'s 1992 for leaking info to Novak

Link:
http://www.bluebus.org/archives/20050708_karl_rove_was_f.php

One thing you can say for Rove, he is predictable.


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[sojourner]

2. UL...a treasure! Thanks!

[understandinglife]

4. Cooper "... confirmed that his source on the leak was ... Rove"

Matthew Cooper Testifies, Details to Come

By E&P Staff

July 13, 2005

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"He confirmed that his source on the leak was Deputy Chief of Staff Rove, one of President Bush's most trusted advisers and the man credited with Bush's four consecutive campaign victories.

"The waiver that freed Cooper to cooperate with the grand jury was signed by Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin. Cooper's attorney, Richard Sauber, was on hand Wednesday to pass out photocopies of the waiver to reporters."

More at link:
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000978699

So, is Rove going to claim his lawyer didn't have permission to sign the waiver?

And, notice, "on the leak" - Cooper is not 'parsing' the fact that the act was indeed a 'leak.' Now we can all see if 'leak' is as challenging as 'fixed' for some to understand.

To quote Randi Rhodes: "If you could harness the spin coming out of the WH and hook it up to a generator, we'd never have to invade another oil-rich country again."
(http://tinyurl.com/ckoaq)


Peace.

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[understandinglife]

5. Bolton as Rove's source; a worthy speculation from Dan Wingfoot

Miller could take all of them down ...

By Dan Wingfoot

July 13, 2005

From putting together all of the pieces about the Plame affair that have appeared here in the past few days, it looks as if the initial information leaked from the State Department, from the file they keep on Joe Wilson. That probably means John Bolton, who had access to State Dept files, is the one who introduced the information about Plame to the White House staff.

After the Wilson op ed piece in the NYTimes, Bolton, who also had access to CIA files about its operatives, probably told Rove and Libby about Plame and her possible connection to Joe Wilson and his trip, and it was Rove and libby who called Cooper, Novak, and the other reporters on strict background (double super secret, whatever that means; obviously much deeper cover than cross your heart and hope to die).

More at the link:
http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/12/155834/147

I suppose it is possible, given Bolton and Plame's roles in WMD intelligence, that Bolton could have gotten access to the fact that Plame was CIA.

Several have speculated as to why the White House will not provide documents regarding Bolton's pursuits.

Bolton is a much more likely source of the steady stream of propaganda Miller was spewing and they share a pedigree that includes Poindexter and his ilk.

Miller may move from the 1st to the 5th, but at some point she is going to testify under oath or go to jail for a very long time.


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