This past spring we read headlines of how “the brain is back”. Of course they were talking about Karl Rove, who came back strong into the political arena once he was cleared in the Valerie Plame leak case. Shortly after that, Rove remained the headline. He laid out the GOP strategy for the mid-term elections […]
The right wingers jump every time the word “classified” or “secret” is used as a source in a New York Times article. Well how about if the Washington Times uses the same terms? Recent U.S. intelligence analyses of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs were flawed and the lack of clarity on the issue hampered […]
I have really been waiting for this to happen: The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, […]
With a little over four months to go, things are going to really heat up for the mid-term elections: White House political strategist Karl Rove emerges from the CIA leak case with his reputation scuffed, his power slightly diminished, and Republicans counting on him, once again, to help rescue their House and Senate majorities. Described […]
Vanity Fair has a new, long piece up looking into the Niger yellow cake claim that helped lead this country to invading Iraq and the outting of Valerie Plame: The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, […]
This is the first I heard about this, but Jason Leopold of Truthout seems to be on target all the time: Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove. During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former […]
State of the Union Speech – January 29, 2002: Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom. Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for […]
Raw Story has the full transcript, but here are the parts that stuck out to me: Karl Rove has described his three and a half hour fifth meeting with a grand jury as “hell,” and is more worried about being prosecuted than ever, MSNBC is reporting. The three and a half hour duration is considered […]
Fitzmas could be returning. Top White House aide Karl Rove prepared to testify Wednesday for a fifth time before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer’s identity, a person familiar with the case said. Rove consulted with his private lawyers before a scheduled afternoon court appearance and was prepared to answer […]
The front page of today’s Washington Post has an interesting headline – “White House Shifts Into Survival Mode“: In a White House known for both defiance and optimism, yesterday’s senior staff changes represent a frank acknowledgment of the trouble in which President Bush now finds himself. They are also a signal of how starkly Bush’s […]