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Rove Hides Behind A Newspaper
Karl Rove is getting more creative -- and less convincing -- with his non-denial denials about the politicization of prosecutions over at the Justice Department.
Asked directly by ABC's George Stephanopolus on Sunday whether he spoke at all with the DOJ officials about the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman for corruption, Rove stammered and repeated the phrase: "I found out about Don Siegelman's indictment by reading about it in the newspaper."
The question's been nagging Rove for a year now, and will probably continue to since the House issued a subpoena last week ordering him to testify on Capitol Hill. House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers (D-MI) rejected Rove's proposal to submit a written statement to the committee. The White House asserts that executive privilege bars Rove from having to testify.
The question from Stephanopolus was more direct than he's faced in the past. But Rove has issued vague, strangely worded, lawyerly specific answers to essentially the same question before.
About one year ago, when he was first accused of pushing for Siegelman's prosecution, he could only refute the specific detail of an individual conversation he allegedly had with Alabama officials.
"I know nothing about any phone call," Rove told reporters in Alabama in June 2007, before a White House press aide intervened and said, "What he meant to say was that he has no comment."
Josh
Zachary
What I find amazing is that this statement is actually being treated as a denial. For example go to:
http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/26/monday-5262008-daily-news-digest/
and scroll down to the summary of the Washington Post story.
May 26, 2008 8:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Rove r's statement is regarded as a non-denial denial in the blogosphere for the most part.
AND he may not even be lying when he says he heard about, read about, learned about the INDICTMENT via the newspaper.
Of course, he may be lying about that, too. That's for Karl to know and nobody to find out. Republican ops can't say "yes" or "no" because they haven't very extensive vocabularies. When they are asked to answer with a yes or a no, they send a noisy wind into the air.
If they weren't tone deaf, I'd prefer it if they'd just whistle Dixie (Republican theme song) and I can't stand Dixie.
May 27, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
HA-HA-HA. He found out about the indictment from a newspaper??? WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING???
Ludicrous! Ludicrous! Ludicrous!
May 27, 2008 12:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Tighten the rope slowly, darlings.
May 27, 2008 2:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
kkkarl said he found out about Valerie Plame in a newspaper too
until it was proven by rock solid evidence that kkkarl was lying about the newspaper stuff ...
guess what
kkkarl is about to be proved a liar TWICE
used the same lie BOTH TIMES don't you journalist guys feel stupid yet ???
May 27, 2008 2:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
He'll never end up in front of Congress. It's quite clear, at this point, that none of these guys will have to answer for anything they've done, and all these scandals will just be a historical footnote. Future generations who bring up these topics will be called conspiracy theorists, and the actions will be dismissed as hyperbolized "politics as usual".
Integrity lost sway in this country long ago, and it's unlikely to make a return. Not trying to be a downer, but try not to get too excited about the subpoena. The network of money and corruption ties too many legislators on both sides of the isle together.
Your energies would be far better spent praying that we discover a magical hidden island full of ignorant natives we can newly exploit for cheap labor in exchange for the flagging dollar. Then we can just go back to buying stuff.
May 27, 2008 10:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
hey kkkarl you might as well get that old classic live at folsum prison by johnny cash just to put you in the right frame of mind of what your goin to be lookin foward to...oh yeah that movie the shankshaw redemption would be a good movie for you t watch too well except for the redemption part....the sisters are just gonna love that piggy ass of yours
May 27, 2008 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
This story was originally broken by JOHN CAYLOR at INSIDER MAGAZINE.
May 27, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's the big deal? All Karl Rove did was subvert the Justice Department, turn it into a political arm of KGB-style retribution, allow real injustices to go unpunished while he investigating phony "voting scandals" and masterminded a series of legal attacks to arrest and depose a lawfully-elected Governor. So what? He supports the troops and wears a flag pin. A lot more than most of you so-called Americans.
May 27, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
First, how can potential "Executive Privilege" be used as a shield against investigation of a potential crime? I know, I know - this is the Bush Administration ...
Second, did Mr. Rove find out about the first Seigelman prosecution in the newspaper and then push the second prosecution?
These are not difficult questions to think up.
May 27, 2008 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink