Word: roved
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...Karl Rove, the President's top political strategist, has been implicated in the controversy. A longtime Republican lawyer in Alabama swears she heard a top G.O.P. operative in the state say that Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. attorneys...
...Congressional investigators say they intend to press on with their demands for additional testimony from Administration officials, including the President's top political adviser, Karl Rove. Lawmakers have also said they will not confirm any more Justice Department nominees until they are given e-mails and other documentation they have demanded from the White House...
...firing last year of eight U.S. Attorneys. Gonzales had previously suggested that all of them had been dismissed for poor performance, but McNulty allowed that at least one of them, Bud Cummins of the Eastern District of Arkansas, had been removed to make room for Tim Griffin, a Karl Rove protégé who had headed the opposition-research operation at the Republican National Committee. Gonzales was upset, his former chief of staff Kyle Sampson has told congressional investigators, that McNulty's revelation put "in the public sphere" the uncomfortable fact that the White House helped engineer the dismissal...
...Wilson - who was in a tight House race - called him to inquire about a corruption investigation that could have hurt Wilson's Democratic opponent. Iglesias claims Domenici went so far as to ask whether charges would be filed before the November balloting. A few weeks later, after complaints from Rove reached Sampson, Iglesias' name was added to the list of U.S. attorneys to be fired. When Iglesias was booted with the others on Dec. 7, William Kelley, a deputy to then White House counsel Harriet Miers, sent Sampson an e-mail saying that Domenici's chief of staff "is happy...
...center of all the intrigue is the role that Rove might have played in the department's decisions. The White House says an untold number of e-mails related to the firings may have gone missing, thanks to the fact that Rove and his aides were using separate e-mail accounts at the Republican National Committee, possibly violating the law. So the Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Gonzales to hand over any e-mails to, from or copied to the President's chief political strategist that relate to the investigation. According to a Justice Department "privileged log" of e-mails...