Dan Froomkin: Where's Karl Rove?

[babylonsister]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

Where's Karl Rove?

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, March 9, 2007; 3:08 PM

Denis Collins, a juror in the Scooter Libby trial, wasn't just channeling his fellow jurors on Tuesday when he faced the microphones and asked: "Where's Rove?"

Collins's point was that Libby, who he had just helped convict on obstruction-of-justice charges, was quite obviously not the only person involved in the politically motivated outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Rove managed to wiggle off prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's hook in June with a just-in-time recanting of earlier testimony in which he -- just like Libby -- misinformed investigators about his role. (See my June 13, 2006 column, Fitzgerald Leaves Questions Unanswered.)

And in spite of President Bush's assurances that anyone involved in the leak of Plame's identity to journalists would be fired, Rove -- who eventually admitted confirming Plame's identity to Robert Novak and volunteering it to Matthew Cooper -- is still on the White House payroll.

But since the Democratic sweep in the November elections, the "architect" of the previous three Republican victories has been largely out of public view.

So where is Rove? And what is the master manipulator up to?

It turns out he's alive and well and plotting in his windowless West Wing office just how to spin Bush's greatest weakness into a great strength -- and in that way burnish his boss's legacy.

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[Arkansas Granny]

1. It seems he was in my home state last night trying to explain why

Bush fired the U.S. attorneys.

http://www.swtimes.com/articles/2007/03/09/news/news02.txt

[lligrd]

2. I'd Like To Know How Rove Got Out Of A Perjury Charge

Maybe Waxman can help us find out.

[jaksavage]

3. Hiding

In case some radical nut case decides to pass a projectile through his ears.

Oh , I forgot, our history is full of dead progressives not conservatives.

I don't know why he's hiding.

[durtee librul]

4. Windowless West Wing office?

Is that the closet? Shame on me for thinking a man of his stature would be in the closet.