Shocker.

So...you're saying Rove is a liar? Also, water wet, sky blue...

Can any of this lead to something meaningful like an indictment?

Frankly, I am still proud to see an hydrocephalic achieve so much in life.

Remind me again why we care about this story? Of course Rove was involved. We've known that for years. He was involved in practically everything at the Bush White House.

So is Rove's behavior - that we now have documented - a violation of any laws? If so, what is the process of getting him into court and the potential penalty?

Who else might be chargeable?

I also wonder what the elements of proof of the likely charge are, too.

"shy about doing his job on Madrid."

I still manage to find this somewhat shocking. Or maybe I’m saddened more than shocked. There aren’t really many places where you have the political venality of the Bush administration literally spelled out for you quite so explicitly.

I mean, here you have a high White House official not-too-implicitly stating that bringing unsupported criminal charges against political opponents is the job of Republican USA appointees. Even worse, it wasn’t Madrid who was the target of investigations; which I might be willing to chalk up to political hardball, it was ordinary voters who screwed up their registration cards. That’s how this whole scandal was ginned up: New Mexico GOPers trolling for “fraudulent” voter registration cards.

If Iglesias hadn’t exhibited some integrity a bunch of innocent schmucks would have been rung up on federal voter fraud indictments…just so Rove, Domenici, and Wilson can score some political points.

Really frustrated reading these articles with a half-dozen 1-2 word quotes. If I was didn't know better, I'd think these were taken out of context.

You've done the hard work of finding the damning bits of information. Now be a great blogger by posting the extended quotes and trusting the reader to make their own decision instead of having to rely on your interpretation.

Frustrated.

It is possible to be a conduit of sorts in federal prison.

The 2001-2009 government is, it seems, the journalistic gift that keeps on giving -- simply because so many things that were obviously true at the time were regarded (by convention) as some kind of obscure mystery, shrouded in mere possibilities. We will eventually discover that Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, and Bush -- in something like that order -- did indeed run the Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, and Bush administration. And when it is headlined, we will express outrage.

on page 62 of his july 7th interview, after a question about carol lam & the duke cunningham prosecution, Rove interupted the committee attorny to ask if Lam had been involved with that prosecution, or if it had been taken care of by the Los Ageles US Atty Office...what a lying, disingenuous bastard..