ROVE DIRECTLY TIED TO Prosecutor Purge

[kpete]

Rove Tied Directly to ProsecutorGate and the Suborning of Justice for Partisan Prosecution



Posted on Sat, Mar. 10, 2007
Rove was asked to fire U.S. attorney
By Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Presidential advisor Karl Rove and at least one other member of the White House political team were urged by the New Mexico Republican party chairman to fire the state's U.S. attorney because of dissatisfaction with his job performance including his failure to indict Democrats in a voter fraud investigation in the battleground election state.


In an interview Saturday with McClatchy Newspapers, Chairman Allen Weh said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove and asked that he be removed. Weh said he followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.


Weh's account calls into question the Justice Department's stance that the recent decision to fire eight U.S. attorneys, including Iglesias, was made without the White House weighing in. Justice Department officials have said the White House's involvement was limited to approving a list of the U.S. attorneys after the Justice Department made the decision to fire them.


Rove could not be reached Saturday and the White House said it would have no immediate response. A Justice Department spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

more at:
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16872058.htm

[saltpoint]

1. Would anyone be terribly offended if I called Karl Rove a

remorseless shithead?

Thanks for this post, kpete. I hope the wheels of justice grind a certain few people to powder.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. I am terribly offended

that you didn't add more adjectives to your descriptive portrayal of the self-serving, fascist, traitorous fuck-wad that he is.

:evilgrin:

[saltpoint]

9. !

[StClone]

18. The worst I can say about Rove

Is he is UNELECTED with nearly unlimited, unchecked power.

[saltpoint]

22. And that's plenty to say, and I think you're right-on with it, too.

Unchecked power.

Well, with any luck at all, some of his Rethuglican colleagues in the House and Senate will call for his resignation, pending the outcome of this tie-in.

If the trail leads unquestionably to Rove's front door, the pressure will mount for him to pack up and leave.

He's a miracle survivor of the Libby trial, IMO.

[Cobalt-60]

15. Id can't say I'm suprised

When the revolution comes I'd like to request custody of prisoner Rove.
I would like to spend some quality time with him.

[saltpoint]

17. If I'm in charge, Cobalt-60, there's no one else I'd rather have on

that detail.

Rove is very close to a nihilist. I can vehemently oppose Dick Lugar or Tim Pawlenty, but as bad as they are, they aren't dark-hearted and morally oblivious the way Rove is.

He's all bad news, all the time.

[Cobalt-60]

28. I think a little fresh and hard work would be just the thing

"Karl, how come you got your dirt in Old Crusoe's hole?
Better dig it outa there before he sees it!"

[saltpoint]

31. If you'll allow me a Hallmark moment here, I feel sorry for Rove's wife

and son.

I can't be the only American who vehemently resents Rove's privileged life, his unchecked power (as others here have ably and properly called it).

It seems morally bankrupt for Rove to pursue the goals he's pursued and at the same time be husband to a woman and father to a son, and expect them not to be victims of his public image.

And his public image is one stinking rotting corpse of a thing.

[KansDem]

59. Yeah, and then you can come back after he's done and tell him...

he's got dirt all over KansDem's yard, so he'd better get rid of it!

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[MN ChimpH8R]

41. Cheney and KKKarl are pure evil incarnate n/t

[robinlynne]

42. cool. I'll take on Condi.

[ninkasi]

44. Well, I'm offended

why are you complimenting someone who gives remorseless shitheads a bad name? He's a putrid, stinking, corrupt lump of a shithead...give him his full title.

[tavalon]

52. As a shithead,

I take very personal offense to being compared to that creature. :sarcasm:

[wildbilln864]

2. No real surprise there is there?

It means nothing, Bush, Rove, Cheney will continue to do what ever the fuck they want and none will do anything to stop them! :banghead:


Watch the video "America, Freedom to Fascism"

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. K & R, for yet more CYA singing like a canary. I guess the RW'ers think confession before charges is

an immunization against prosecution.

MKJ

[goclark]

4. They just keep on doing evil!

:puke:

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Rove is like that Freddie Kruger or Chainsaw guy.

His handy work keeps creeping up, even after you think the protaganist has been given enough warning that he's an evil person.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. Why do I keep hearing the theme from Dragnet?

:rofl:

Now fall on your sword for the Emperor KKKarl....

[DKRC]

27. He's in no danger of that

You must first have honor to fall on your sword for your Emperor.

[saltpoint]

8. Arlen Specter's remark yesterday has more resonance today as a result

of this tie-in with Karl Rove. In and of itself, I kind of back-burnered Specter's comment, since he makes a bold statement and then backtracks completely on it 90% of the time, but perhaps he or his staff knew about Rove's involvement and that it was going to hit the newsstands before the Sunday morning news shows.

Anybody have any insights on this? It's the kind of gossip I prefer -- much better than Anna Nicole or the Duke rape story.

Let's drag a few Republicans through the mud on this one.

[MagickMuffin]

21. You should take the time to check out my comic

it deals with the Smoking Gun which leads directly to Specter's Office. It is HIS legal counsel who INSERTED THE PROVISION abolishing Senate Confirmation of US attorneys.

Clink on my link Now for more details that is done in cartoon fashion...

[saltpoint]

24. Yes, it was Snarlin' Arlen's provision. Perhaps part of the deal

back when he was being challenged for his Senate seat by an even MORE conservative Rethuglican. A very close race as it turned out.

'Will explore your link by and by. Thank you.

I never liked Arlen much. It doesn't feel much like I ever will.

[MagickMuffin]

30. The MAN Responsible

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW MICHAEL E. O’NEILL is currently taking a leave of absence to serve as Chief Counsel for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee.

Professor O'Neill specializes in criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law. In addition to his academic duties, he served as a Commissioner of the United States Sentencing Commission from 1999 to 2005. Before joining George Mason's law school faculty full-time in 1998, he taught as a member of the adjunct faculty. Professor O'Neill clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Professor O'Neill also served as general counsel for the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, as a special assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, and as an appellate litigator in the U.S. Justice Department's Criminal Division Appellate Section.

Professor O'Neill earned his B.A. summa cum laude (1987) from Brigham Young University and his J.D. (1990) from Yale Law School. While at Yale, Professor O'Neill was editor of articles and book reviews for the Yale Law Journal and articles editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

I embolden the text above to alert you to the irony of him specializing in constitutional law. It appears to me he didn't learn anything about the constitution. Otherwise he would not have Snuck in a Provision to abolish a law just hours before the vote.

I started a thread about this topic. Check it out and give a kick if you don't mind...

[saltpoint]

32. Ok I'll have a look. Could you provide the link?

[MagickMuffin]

36. That would help ;=D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x385849

[saltpoint]

38. Danke.

[tanyev]

34. Oh, I bet he learned a lot about the constitution.

He just didn't agree with any of it.

[MagickMuffin]

37. How very TRUE :-(

Such a SHAME.

WHY DO THE REPUBS HATE DEMOCRACY?!?!?

Or as one of my Toon series FEAR AND LOATHING OF DEMOCRACY...

Sorry for yelling, but it is getting to the point, how can you keep from it?!?

[IChing]

10. Harriet Miers has also been asked to be interviewed.

Can you imagine if we get to see that on CSPAN?

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/031007dnnatattorneys.3779660.html
Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., chairwoman of the subcommittee directing the inquiry, sent a letter Friday to Ms. Miers, a longtime Bush loyalist who left her post in January, requesting that she submit to an interview.

Ms. Miers couldn't be reached for comment.

[saltpoint]

14. I'm no fashion maven but do you think purple is really Harriet Miers' color?

She looks like she beat up one of the Teletubbies and ran off with the outfit.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

16. Bahahahaha

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[IChing]

19. She is one of the weakest link in this affair, just stare in her eyes for a second.

Think of her sworn under oath in front of congress.
Rove is the person of course who did this but she was the presidents legal council on the decision


this is another real quote from her.

[saltpoint]

20. Exactly. It's in her eyes. There's something horribly wrong.

I think some Republicans have styrofoam brains. Clinical studies should be undertaken on this.

Harriet Miers was likely one of the prototypes for this model.

And poor Barney. He's only pretending to be a dumb animal so as not to embarrass the humans he's forced to hang out with.

[Elwood P Dowd]

25. She looks like one of "The Invaders" from the old 60s TV show

with Roy Thinnes. Weird eyes.

[saltpoint]

26. Well, she may just BE one of them. I wouldn't rule it out at all.

[IChing]

39. Either that or a female Ralph Wiggums

[EFerrari]

33. LOL!

:rofl:

[malaise]

35. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Damn. Who will stop Rove?

[Hekate]

45. It looks more like royal blue on my screen, but still not her color

What is with those crazed eyes?

Hekate

[saltpoint]

53. Hi, Hekate. Yes. Her eyes. There's a delirious swirl in those eyes.

They've bewitched Dubya for years, evidently.

It will be interesting to have Harriet Miers back in town to testify.

[gristy]

11. Voter fraud?

:wtf: It's called election fraud: http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/democracy_for_new_mexico/files/NewMexico2004ElectionDataReport-v2.pdf

[solara]

12. Rove, the weakest link.. thanks for posting this. k&r

[proud patriot]

13. Wheeee ! ! ! ! !

:D

[Olney Blue]

23. Rove is a liar and traitor. Not good at math either.....

[Divine Discontent]

40. Unchecked and knows he's totally without control in THIS white house

with dubya 'in charge'... Rove has to LAUGH inside about how much control he has over the shrub...

he clearly must feel like he's the president

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<<--- my best 08 and anti-bush stickers & shirts!

[grytpype]

29. Heh, beat you by 50 minutes!

All those recs should be mine! :-)

[wiggs]

43. This is utterly amazing and important. I can't yet put my finger on why, as it

is late and I'm tired, but this has disaster for the WH written all over it.

Firing of US attorneys has hit a chord in the media and with the public...and to now have the greasy fingerprints of Rove on it....

...edited to give a tip of the hat to kpete

[givemebackmycountry]

46. Did you know....

That U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was the guy the movie "A Few Good Men" was based on?

You know, the guy Tom Cruise portrayed.

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

Yes - THAT guy.

I heard it on Randi Rhodes show last week.
And how often is SHE wrong.

[Hekate]

47. Pass that one on to Keith Olbermann!

Wow.

Hekate

[I_Make_Mistakes]

48. So, this is why Gonzo, wanted to back track and not have

hearings. They have to protect the Rove ASSet at all costs. Please let there be hearings!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

51. Wow! That's a juicy little nugget of information.

Can't imagine the repukes are thrilled with this snafu. Thanks for that GMBMC.

[Roland99]

49. Heckuva job, Turdblossom!

[GreenZoneLT]

50. Well, it's a start.

Just because the New Mexico guy asked Rove to do it doesn't mean Rove did anything (since the New Mexico guy was directly leaning on the local U.S. attorney), but with any luck, they'll turn up some evidence that he DID do something. Maybe we'll see that dirtbag frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs yet.

[Klukie]

54. Damn....Is there anything that this weasel

doesn't have his hands in? All roads eventually lead back to Cheney/Rove.

[KoKo]

55. Nice Gem from article: "Voter Fraud" ...connect that to Rove...

Several Republican activists interviewed for this story said their frustration with Iglesias dated back to before the 2004 election, and his decision to create a task force on voter fraud rather than try to prosecute Democrats who submitted allegedly fraudulent voter registrations.

They also felt that he had largely botched a corruption case against the state treasurer, a Democrat. After a mistrial, federal prosecutors eventually secured a conviction.

By last fall, Wilson's re-election campaign was in serious trouble. But Republicans, including Weh, said they remained convinced that federal indictments were about to come down against several high-profile Democrats in a long-brewing corruption investigation related to courthouse construction projects.

[TheBobo]

56. i don't even understand...

...how is it possible to sneak a new provision into a bill before it is to be voted on? don't changes to bills have to be voted on as amendments to bills? i have approximately zero civics knowledge, so please enlighten me...

[newyawker99]

57. Hi TheBobo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[TheBobo]

58. thanks!

[Dinger]

60. O.K., So KKKarl Is Caught In Another Crime/Misdeed

It's been a pattern for many years. Everybody says what an asshole sick sonofabitch he is (& oh yeah, he is), then it dies down pretty fast, and in short order another lie/crime of KKKArl's will be brought to light, it'll die down pretty fast, and in short order . . . . . You get the idea. When in the hell is he gonna go, AND PAY???? I am sick of waiting. By the way, the same goes for bu$h, & the rest of his crime family. I'm sick of feeling giddy ("Fitzmas", etc.), and then left, sapped of energy, sick of the helpless feeling that bu$hCo. got away with yet another one.