And guess who is at the center of the storm?
Karl Rove, who managed to escape Plamegate unscathed against all the odds, is once again emerging as the main driving force behind the administrations actions. An e-mail surfaced today, that was entitled "Questions from Karl Rove" dated all the way back to Jan. 6, 2005:
And yet, remarkably, Rove is the one administration official who is continuing on the offensive on this issue. While Gonzalez and Bush assert that "mistakes were made" and tiptoe around the issue, Rove told journalism students earlier today that the decision to fire each prosecutor "was made at the Department of Justice on the basis of policy and personnel." "We're at a point where people want to play politics with it," Rove told students at a journalism seminar at Troy University in Alabama."Karl Rove stopped by to ask you (roughly quoting), 'How we planned to proceed regarding US 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.,'" Colin Newman, a legal aide in the White House counsel's office, wrote deputy counsel David Leitch.
Will he once again manage to wangle his way out of it. The Judiciary Committee is making noises about compelling his testimony, as well as that of former White House Counsel (and abandoned Supreme Court nominee) Harriet Miers and other White House officials. Still, I wouldn't at all be surprised if Rove remains untouched, the true evil mastermind of the ever-more-disastrous second Bush administration.