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...mails showing Karl Rove's early involvement in the decision-making over the firing of U.S. attorneys are inconclusive on the central question underlying the dismissals: did President Bush or his top advisers put their own political interests ahead of the public interest? But on Capitol Hill, where ill-will toward the White House is growing by the day, lawmakers are more interested in learning who, if anyone, lied to Congress - and these e-mails will only further raise suspicions and keep investigators digging...
...told reporters traveling with Bush that Rove had "expressed disagreement" with a proposal by then White House counsel Harriet Miers around the same time to fire all 93 of them. Deputy spokesman Tony Fratto insisted the White House has not been trying to distance Rove from the matter. "Karl recalls that Harriet raised it with him and he thought it was a bad idea and said so," Fratto said. "Nothing in this e-mail that was released contradicts that...
There is something intensely familial about the scandal now engulfing the Bush Administration over the dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys last year. The key players--Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, political shaman Karl Rove--all rose from the tight web of Texas loyalists who owe their careers to George W. Bush and followed him to Washington in 2001. Bush even chose a member of his Texas tribe who wasn't implicated, counselor Dan Bartlett, for the task of defending those who were. Said Bartlett of the firings: "All the decisions ... were proper decisions...
...more involved in the dismissals than its spokesmen had previously acknowledged. In 2005, Miers--whom Bush would later fail, calamitously, to promote to the Supreme Court--suggested firing all 93 U.S. Attorneys. Deemed impractical, that idea was replaced by the more modest hit list of eight. "Circulate it to Karl's shop," read one DOJ missive...
...mail, Sampson notes that the appointment of Tim Griffin to a U.S. attorney slot in Little Rock, "was important to Harriet [Miers], Karl [Rove], etc." In response, Democrats said they would investigate the "etc." - to discover which persons at the White House or DOJ he might have been referring...