I don't understand this issue.

The Office of Special Counsel determined that Lurita Doan, GSA chief, violated the Hatch Act. If J. Scott Jennings was the one who actually gave the GSA presentation, isn't he guilty of violating the Hatch Act, too?

What is supposed to happen if someone violates the Hatch Act? So far, nothing has happened to Doan.

What is the significance of Rove giving pep talks to the DOJ other than it making the DOJ look partisan as hell?

The Hatch Act has no criminal enforcement. The only thing it can cost an employee is their job, or knock two years off your career for pension purposes.

Doolittle was on Rove's list of endangered GOP, he was also under investigation by the DOJ. Were there other GOP on Rove's list who were also investigation? Could this be seen as a way of interfering in the investigations?

Great question, kali! Last fall, I wondered about how much the White House knew about various ongoing DOJ investigations - Curt Weldon, Conrad Burns, John Doolittle et al.

At the time, I was more curious about why the WH would, for example, send out Laura Bush to stump for Weldon when a grand jury was investigating him.

I wonder if Weldon's name ever came up when Rove gave his briefings to the DOJ about key races. The grand jury was empaneled around May '06 but the decision to investigate Weldon criminally would have been made earlier than that.

Anon, Are you implying that Rove is gay with your closet remark? Even if Rove is gay, so what? The GOP only cared that Ken Mehlman lost an election, not that he was gay.

Maybe, Anon, you were referring to skeletons in Rove's closet of which I bet there are many. I am of the belief that every facet of Rove's life be checked and doublechecked.

For example, the Roves took out a three-month $100k mortgage with a million dollar credit line in 11/02 with a bank in Birmingham AL. I thought somone should check that the Roves actually repaid the mortgage and whatever they drew down on the credit line.

You never know when you are going to catch someone cheating.

Omigawd! I googled "karl rove homosexuality" and came across this story from noted journalist, Tom Flocco:

Karl Rove Seen at Homosexual Orgies in Washington

Walter Storch, editor of the Barnes Review News reported three weeks ago that "Karl Rove was seen by one of my people entering a private homosexual orgy at a five-star Washington hotel over the Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) weekend last year." [2004]

A Barnes reporter told Storch that "Karl greatly enjoyed the supervision of a certain hairy 350-lb. Leather Dominator who had won the Miss Virginia Daddy Bear title at the MAL festivities."

Storch wrote, "Karl used to hang out a JR’s, which is on 17th between P & S streets, before he became so well-known. This is a respectable gay bar for discreet people...," adding, "there is an expensive apartment...over near Dupont Circle that certain powerful senators take turns visiting with their pickups." ...

Lurker - Don't know. The Wayne Madsen Report now charges an annual fee of $30 which is out of my league. As an aside, I'm kinda curious about how many people have signed up for it.

Getting back to Karl Rove, homosexuality is in his jeans, according to a recent bio about him.

From the Huffington Post:

New Book Reveals Karl Rove's Father Was Gay...

In The Architect, a new book chronicling Karl Rove's life and conservative agenda, authors James Moore and Wayne Slater, reveal Rove's father, Louis Rove, was homosexual.

Louis Rove left his family during the 1969 Christmas holidays and moved to Los Angeles where he eventually "came out." According to Rove's father's best friend, an openly gay man named Joseph Koons, "Louie didn't hide the fact that he was gay. But he didn't play it up either." The Architect describes Louis Rove as a shy man, encumbered by his three hundred pound figure. To encourage Rove to socialize, Joseph Koons, invited him to join a retired gay men's group called the "Old Farts Club," jokingly referred to among the men as the "Rainbow Casket."

Karl Rove frequently visited his father in the 1980s. Joseph Koons said he didn't sense "any great tension" between Karl and his father.

Rove keeps a photograph of his father on his White House desk and has remarked to reporters that his father "lived life exactly the way he wanted to live it."

Hey Ms.Bly ,
When I read your post about TurdBlossom I feel a little icky -like maybe how I felt when I was reading Ms Goldberg's diatribes - tripping out on Monica & the blue dress. And then I remember that BushcO in general & TurdBlossom in particular made "gay marriage " and other gay bashing rhetoric part of NeoCon GOP dog n pony show to elect Republicants. So I guess its ok to go ahead and expose this right wing homophobic hypocrisy - if its at all true. We're not some members of Hitler's original Gang -homphobic & closet gays at the same time? Hitler did also round up the Roma , gays , & Christians that tried to resist his Aryan Cult of Personality - shipped them all off Dachua & other death camps .
I pray for my Country, and reaffirm my belief in our Constitution -particular the 2nd Admendment - a good ol ' USA insurance policy against our own "Night of the Long Knives ! "
( But could Rover been the one letting bIG Jeff Gannon into the White House-all those many times ? )

I might add that age is of importance concerning the personal issues. The right way to check into this story would be to start in the 1980's and go forward. There is an awful lot to check into, but the ages of those involved might be of extreme interest to the people.All I can say for now is to look into the call boy scandals from the 80's and other areas. These areas are of very high importance.

http://www.dallasnews.com/investigativereports/tyc/

After the scandal broke they cleaned it up but if you control click on the May 23 headline link it pops up a timeline of the documents where the abuse had been reported and whistleblowers were brushed off by then governor Bush's office.

Anon, I mistakenly assumed that most readers here would know I was having fun with Tom Flocco's story about Rove being dominated by a 350-lb. Leather Dominator who had won the Miss Virginia Daddy Bear title at the MAL festivities.

I apologize for being silly here in the TPM MR. Karl Rove is no laughing matter, something I've believed for a long time.

Gannon - Rove. It HAD to be Rove. Given what we now know about Rove's involvement with politicizing the DOJ and with leaking Valerie Plame's CIA cover, it HAD to be Rove who got Gannon into White House Press briefings with no security clearance.

NB:

Photo's still there. That's his wife, Darby. Surprised they're not at "home" at their cottage in Texas.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0fIJ07ygGe8mx/340x.jpg

Conspiracy to violate the Hatch Act would carry criminal penalties. So would covering up (obstructing justice).