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Karl Rove Is Betting He Can Avoid Publicly Disclosing His Role In the Bush Administration's Firing Of Independent-Minded U. S. Attorneys—But He May Be Wrong
By JOHN W. DEAN
Friday, Feb. 6, 2009

Former Bush II White House aide Karl Rove refused, while in office, to testify before the 110th Congress regarding the firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Bush Department of Justice. So did former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former chief of staff Josh Bolten. Miers and Bolten were found in contempt of that Congress, and are now fighting a civil lawsuit that would force them to appear. No doubt, they are hoping the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will declare the case moot since that Congress has expired. Meanwhile, Rove has once again been subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee of the 111th Congress.

Because Rove, along with Miers and Bolten, refused to discuss the firings of the federal prosecutors during investigations by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General and its Office of Professional Responsibility, both offices requested the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate. Bush's Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, had little choice but to make such an appointment as he was heading out the door. He selected Nora Dannehy, the acting U.S. Attorney in Connecticut, to serve as Special Counsel to investigate the firings.

In sum, both the Judiciary Committee and a Special Counsel are actively investigating these firings and everyone wants to talk to Karl Rove, who has publicly declared that he had nothing to do with the firings, or for that matter, the selective prosecution of high-profile Democrats (like former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman). Seasoned investigators, however, do not waste their time fighting their way down dead-end streets, and they want Rove. So there is more going on here than meets the eye, despite Rove's blanket public denials.
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Rove's Strategy and the Reason He Is Cooperating with a Special Counsel While Stonewalling Congress

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