Rove may be forced to testify as Obama's lawyers get involved

[cal04]

Bush proxies now negotiating with new administration
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bushs_lawyer_now_encouraging_Rove_to_0214.html

White House counsel Gregory Craig issued a statement late Friday encouraging former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove to cut a deal with Congress, an indication the new administration has begun to put pressure on President George W. Bush's former chief adviser.

"The president is very sympathetic to those who want to find out what happened," Obama's White House counsel Gregory Craig said in a statement yesterday to The Washington Post's Carrie Johnson. "But he is also mindful as president of the United States not to do anything that would undermine or weaken the institution of the presidency. So, for that reason, he is urging both sides of this to settle."

Moreover, the Obama White House is now trying to work out an agreement with former Bush administration staff -- seemingly going over the head of the man some once dubbed "Bush's brain."

Craig's statement does, however, seem to suggest that Bush's former adviser will be granted some leeway as to the form of his deposition to Congress in lieu of President George W. Bush's claim that Rove is protected by executive privilege.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. No president is going to totally eliminate executive privilege even for former staffers

[SharonAnn]

2. Karl Rove was not "Chief of Staff". That would involve actually doing something meaningful.

He only does dirty tricks and related things.

he was, I think, Political Advisor and had an office in the West Wing.