You Guys See This? - 21 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak

[WillyT]

Kind of a guide from ThinkProgress.Org

Karl Rove
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby
Condoleezza Rice
Stephen Hadley
Andrew Card
Alberto Gonzales
Mary Matalin
Ari Fleischer
Susan Ralston
Israel Hernandez John Hannah
Scott McClellan
Dan Bartlett
Claire Buchan
Catherine Martin
Colin Powell
Karen Hughes
Adam Levine
Bob Joseph
Vice President Dick Cheney
President George W. Bush

Link: http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal#bush

And Ya Gotta Love This One:

Susan Ralston - Personal assistant to Karl Rove (2001-Present)



RALSTON IS ROVE’S RIGHT-HAND: ABC News reported on August 2, 2005 that Susan Ralston, Karl Rove’s long-time right-hand, testified before the grand jury. The National Journal reported, “If Karl Rove is Bush’s main man, then it’s Ralston who makes this White House go — because she’s indispensable to Rove.” According to Newsweek, Ralston was suggested to Rove by ethically-troubled lobbyist Jack Abramoff, for whom she previously served as a top aide.

And she looks like such a nice girl...

:puke:

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. She's A Babe....Such A Shame...Hope She Burns Someday. n/t

[autorank]

10. She just looks like a babe (and I admit, she looks a hell of a lot like

a babe)...but look at the dork. It's probably a body double, dopelganger, or some other form of DNA fraud. Who cares, got her #?

[shraby]

2. And that doesn't include the person/s

who forged the Niger documents or the ones involved in the AIPAC spy case.

[BrotherBuzz]

15. The person that forged the Niger documents is presently at the UN

tearing it apart brick by brick...

[jmatthan]

16. Absolutely on track

See "extinction of the UN" at

http://MoveTheUN.blogspot.com

[madeline_con]

3. "RALSTON IS ROVE’S RIGHT-HAND"

When his own hands are busy?

Oh, please, some compromising photos would rock right about now.

Hang 'em high...

[WillyT]

7. I Think Gannon Was The Left - Hand, LOL !!!

:spank:

:silly:

[lonestarnot]

4. Wowzer! Thanks for this information! Knew it was big!

[Carolab]

5. She was in that photo next to Rove on "Election Night".

Right at his side while he massaged the numbers.

She's disgusting.

[madeline_con]

9. The numbers aren't all that are being massaged, IMO....

She's doing that old pasty gross puke, I'd bet money on it.

[KoKo]

6. Thanks! Now if the "spider web" of ties from Ralston/Rove/Abramoff and

on to the Christian Coalitions mailing list from the Ridenauer's Shop in Alexandria, Va. could all be put together and connect that to PNAC/NeoCons...we might all find some peace in this Hell we live in.

She does look like such a nice little person in this photo. One wonders what lurks there. :eyes:

[cascadiance]

8. Isn't Ashcroft also on this list?

I'd seen at least two different other stories that indicated he was being questioned and may be one of those indicted...

[WillyT]

11. There's Somethin Here:

<snip>

The combination of Ashcroft's close relationship with Rove, the omission of critical information from the FBI by Rove during his initial interview with agents, that Ashcroft had been briefed about that interview in particular, and the-then recent appointment of Comey, all allowed for a forceful case being made by career Justice Department employees be made that the attorney general should step aside and a special prosecutor be named. But says one government official familiar with the process: "When Ashcroft was briefed on Rove, that ended the argument. He was going to be removed. And there was going to be a special prosecutor named."

<snip>

Link: http://talkleft.com/new_archives/011865.html

:hi:

[brettdale]

12. kick

kick

[me b zola]

13. There very well could be more indictments than any of us suspected

:woohoo:

[BrotherBuzz]

14. Isn't Ralston

Gover Norquist's agent, or operative, in the White House? Curious, it's a tangled web they weave.

<snip>
"For two years, the assistant who answered Rove's phone was a woman who had previously worked for lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close friend of Norquist's and a top DeLay fundraiser," Salon reported. "One Republican lobbyist, who asked not to be named because DeLay and Rove have the power to ruin his livelihood, said the way Rove's office worked was this: 'Susan took a message for Rove, and then called Grover to ask if she should put the caller through to Rove. If Grover didn't approve, your call didn't go through.'"

The Washington Monthly added, soon thereafter:

"Speaking of phones and doorkeepers, it's widely understood that to have real influence in Washington, one must be on good terms, not so much with Cabinet secretaries, as with White House secretaries--that is, the assistants who sit in the outer offices of the president's senior advisors. As with much else in this town, uber-lobbyist/anti-tax activist Grover Norquist seems to understand this rule as well as anybody. Norquist had a deal with Susan Ralston, who until recently was the assistant to Karl Rove. An unnamed Republican lobbyist recently told Salon.com: "Susan took a message for Rove, and then called Grover to ask if she should put the caller through to Rove. If Grover didn't approve, your call didn't go through."

How did Norquist attain such influence over Ralston? Flowers every Friday? Redskins tickets? The answer, actually, is what the White House ethics lawyers call a "preexisting relationship." Ralston had formerly worked for lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close friend of Norquist's and a top fundraiser for House majority whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
<more>

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/ROVE_AIDE_CALLED_TO_TESTIFY_TOOK_HIS_MESS_0802.html

[Supersedeas]

19. the price of access -- or is there a mole in the people's house

[BrotherBuzz]

20. I wish there was a mole...

Reading into that bit, it implies that the brains and strategy planners are doing the manipulating remotely, and there ain't nobody home. Puppeteers aplenty with this administration, but we still deserve to know the true identity of the Wizard, the man behind the curtain, the Mr. Big, so to speak.

[WillyT]

17. Kick !!!

:kick:

[DemonFighterLives]

18. Alrighty then! Round Up time!

The more that are snared, the better for America. We are in dire need of a housecleaning.

[Shakespeare]

21. Reads like the index of Blinded by the Right.

Anybody who hasn't read Brock's book, which shows how a lot of these players moved up through the ranks, AND shows just how sleazy they are, should do so. Now.

[lovuian]

22. Its good to see the underlings in the thick of it with their Bosses!!!

You play with the devil and your going to get burned!!!

She's young and she knows all the right people!!!

But is she ready to lose her career and livelihood for Rove!!!

Old buzzards like Kissinger have nothing to lose but young people with their whole life ahead of them well thats different!!!