ROVE & BUSH ADMIN Acknowledge Rove's Role In Prosecutor Purge

[kpete]

Posted on Sun, Mar. 11, 2007
White House says Rove relayed complaints about prosecutors
By Ron Hutcheson, Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged on Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove served as a conduit for complaints to the Justice Department about federal prosecutors who were later fired for what critics charge were partisan political reasons.


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........... Perino offered Rove's account of his dealings with the Justice Department after talking with him by telephone. She said Rove routinely passed along complaints about various U.S. attorneys to the Justice Department and then-White House counsel Miers.

Among the complaints that Rove relayed were concerns among Republican Party officials in various jurisdictions that the Justice Department was not being aggressive in pursuing allegations of election fraud by Democrats. Such allegations by Republicans were a particular concern in New Mexico and Washington.

Rove acknowledged that he personally complained to Miers that "voter fraud cases were not being treated as a priority" by the Justice Department, Perino said. He also passed along complaints about Iglesias that he had heard going back as far as 2004.

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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16884148.htm

[GregD]

1. Rove whining about voter fraud?

Black is white, up is down, business as usual for these criminals....

[Starfury]

9. Remember: voter fraud =/= election fraud

[robinlynne]

13. voter fraud is the republican created "voters who are responsible for the fraud".

as opposed to election fraud which is real.

[Erika]

2. I Despise the GOP for politicizing our judicial!

The fact that the GOP would insert politics based on rulings of existing court cases is dangerous and treasonous.

These judges were GOP appointees but evidently not right wing ideologues who saw party above the law. That's why they are being fired.

[Supersedeas]

14. Our ally Pakistan suspended the Chief Supreme Court Justice--do we set a good example?

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Impeach them all

Now.

[aquart]

5. We don't have to impeach Rove.

We can just torture and disappear him. Quick! While it's still legal.

[Skip Intro]

4. Whatever they're admitting to, we can assume it is the tip of the iceburg.

It always is with them. The fact that they volunteer this admission may reflect an acknoledgement that Dems, in control, can now hold hearings, with teeth, but my gut sez a bigger reason. This smells really big.

[KoKo]

6. Rove throws Gonzales and Harriet "Under the Bus" to save his skin?

Sort of suits him...at least what we Dems know of him. :eyes:

[gratuitous]

7. And Rove's basis for this interference is . . . What?

He has no experience as a federal attorney, he's a political hatchetman. He's not competent to render an opinion about the kind of job a U.S. Attorney is doing. And yet when Rove says "frog," the Justice Department jumps.

We might need some more hearings under oath. Would Karl burn his hand if he touched a Bible?

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

8. We are so lucky that it is ONLY all the people around * that are

engaged in all these illegal, unethical, and/or immoral activities. Otherwise we might be in a real mess!

:sarcasm:

Oh, wait. We ARE in a humungous mess.

Hmm.

[POAS]

11. Hey look at the bright side

to an "unitary executive" or as we said back in the day and "imperial Presidency".

At least the trains will run on time!

[radfringe]

10. funny how

Rove seems to be involved in everything, and if you dig down a bit deeper you find Halliburton/Cheney

[malaise]

12. Alter on MSNBC now

and Gonzales will be on later. Alter says this is a major story.