Rove is in this up to his eyeballs. He's gonna be swimming in subpoenas.

[fooj]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002750.php

Rove Deputy Worked to Get Former Aide Spot

By Paul Kiel - March 13, 2007, 5:15 PM

Emails in August of 2006 show that Karl Rove's deputy was intimately involved in getting Tim Griffin, who himself used to be an aide to Rove, installed as the federal prosecutor in eastern Arkansas.

An email from Scott Jennings, Rove's deputy as the Deputy Political Director at the White House, shows that Jennings was in close contact with Grfffin, even working out the logistics of getting Griffin appointed. The email also shows that then-U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins cooperated in ushering Griffin in.

"Tim said he got a call from Bud offering this idea," Jennings wrote to Alberto Gonzales' chief of staff Kyle Sampson in late August, "that Tim come on board as a special while Bud finalizes his private sector plans. That would alleviate pressure/implication that Tim forced Bud out. Any thoughts on that?"

"I think it's a great idea," Sampson responded.
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Just another piece to the puzzle. Rove is in deep shit. It'll be interesting to see how he attempts to wiggle out of this one.

[fooj]

1. Check out this info re: Sampson.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Gonzales Staffer Was "Ready Replacement" for Rove

By Paul Kiel - March 13, 2007, 2:52 PM

Some background on Kyle Sampson, the now former chief of staff to Alberto Gonzales whom you'd never heard of before today.

From Al Kamen's "In The Loop" column on October 31, 2005, when the Valerie Plame scandal was raging:


Waiting in the Wings

Speaking of Karl Rove , there had been much concern last week that he also might have to resign as a result of Fitzgerald's probe. The loss of Karl's familiar presence -- he's the last of the original "Iron Triangle" of Bush's Texas advisers still in the White House -- would have unsettled many younger aides.

Fortunately, there's a ready replacement: D. Kyle Sampson , chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and formerly in the White House counsel's office. Maybe not exactly the same as Karl but . . .

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[cassiepriam]

2. Nah, he will do the same thing he did to Fitz. Come up with a fake email

and get himself off the hook.

[kimmerspixelated]

3. All these cretins are like

Teflon-nuttin stix to em'!

[rurallib]

4. I hope someone can finally nail this slimy fucker

How many times have we thought he went too far and now will be made to pay - and then he slides through. Especially the treason perpetrated against Plame.