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...that the Republicans have made steady gains during his tenure in office, picking up Congressional seats and legislatures and now these two governorships. Does Haley Barbour, the governor-elect of Mississippi, bode well for outsiders? I doubt it. He is about as much of a political novice as Karl Rove. He was the political director in the Reagan White House and a Washington fixture for more than two decades as a lobbyist and TV talking head. Barbour is an iconic Republican, the same way Sen John Edwards, a trial lawyer, is the iconic Democrat...
...Robert Novak back in July--whether they really wanted to get to the bottom of the matter or not. Government sources tell TIME that the FBI has interviewed more than two dozen officials in several Washington offices, including White House press secretary Scott McClellan and Bush political adviser Karl Rove as well as other West Wing aides. The FBI has obtained desk diaries and phone records and is examining the network server that handles White House e-mail. So far, the initial face-to-face interviews, which are typically not done under oath, have been somewhat informal. In a sign...
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...sense of command in public for some weeks now, looked a little steadier than his aides, but the steely hang-the-guilty determination he reserves for terrorists and other evildoers was missing when it came to discussing the possible leakers in his midst. Asked about the accusations concerning Rove, his political alter ego, Bush said, "Listen, I know of nobody--I don't know of anybody in my Administration who leaked classified information." Bush seemed to emphasize those last two words as if hanging on to a legal life preserver in choppy seas. "If somebody did leak classified information...
...TIME.com story puts Novak's column in context as part of a campaign against Wilson. The story says officials suggested he was picked for the Niger trip because of his wife. Four days later, Wilson says a journalist told him that Karl Rove allegedly said Wilson's wife was "fair game." But Wilson now says it was a White House source, not necessarily Rove...