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E-Mails Contradict White House

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Posted on Mar 15, 2007

The White House has suggested that the idea to fire U.S. attorneys originated with former counsel Harriet Miers, but newly released e-mails show that Alberto Gonzales discussed the matter with political guru Karl Rove even before he was confirmed as attorney general. Related: Check out the Brad Blog’s excellent coverage of the voter-fraud angle of the scandal.

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Newly revealed White House e-mails show President Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, and then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales were involved in discussions of a shakeup of U.S. attorneys before Gonzales became attorney general.

A January 9, 2005, e-mail discussing the prospect of replacing all 93 U.S. attorneys in Bush’s second term noted that Gonzales aide Kyle Sampson discussed the matter with his boss “a couple of weeks ago.” Gonzales was facing Senate confirmation as attorney general at the time.

Sampson’s e-mail came in response to a forwarded message originally from another White House aide, Colin Newman. Newman wrote that Rove had asked “how we were going to proceed regarding U.S. attorneys, whether we were going to allow all to stay, request resignations from all and accept only some of them or selectively replace them, etc.”

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By Quy Tran, March 16, 2007 at 12:22 pm #
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The fate of Karl Rove will surely be the same that of “Scooter” when he loses his position in Bush’s brain, but when ? May be hundred years later !

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By Joe, March 16, 2007 at 12:08 pm #
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Gonzales uber alles! Hardly! He’s not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. His only claim to power was making sure that Bush’s DWI arrests didn’t surface in critical times. Weren’t you touched by his reciting his struggles as a man trying to earn a living - all it takes apparently is just burying one skeleton - provided that it’s the right skeleton of course!

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By felicity, March 16, 2007 at 11:53 am #
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Rove really is a political hack and he’s not very good at plying his trade in spite of the fact that he learned it from a real pro, the now deceased Lee Atwater. The book “Bush’s Brain” reveals that Rove’s nefarious deeds are ill-conceived, ill-planned and ill-executed. What he is good at is getting away with them - often at the expense of some poor schmuck who ends up taking the heat.  Think Libby.

That said, Feinstein recently said that Gonzales’s claim that he serves at the pleasure of the president clearly shows that Gonzales thinks he’s Bush’s personal lawyer.  He is not. Once he takes the oath of office as Attorney-General he works for this country and her people, not the president. 

It’s pretty obvious by now that Gonzales, in keeping with his belief, is in office to serve Mr. Bush and his criminal cronies. Example:  In 2002 Gonzales said, “The nature of the war on terror makes existing laws and international agreements irrelevant.” So here we are in 2007 living in a country where one man, George Bush, is the law, the only law and his enforcer is Alberto Gonzales.  Pretty ominous.

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By joey, March 16, 2007 at 5:45 am #
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HEADLINE SHOULD BE

Karl Rove, a second rate political hack and dirty tricks specialist
Hijacks country and goes to war,
Killing thousands , threating the planet

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