How could you? Your lawyers have cut a sweet deal for Karl Rove's appearance before Congress. He won't have to testify in public, not under oath and will be able to avoid some critical questions. Here's part of the story from Counterpunch:
This is the deal brokered by the current administration, with Obama's hand-picked White House counsel, Gregory Craig, and his aides playing a "critical role," as Newsweek reports. But while the venerable newsmag found time to address the ever-burning question of who "won" in the negotiations -- Did Rove's lawyers make the most concessions? Who's on top of the Beltway food chain today? -- they entirely omitted a very pertinent fact, reported by Glynn Wilson at the Locust Fork News-Journal: Obama's White House Counsel has worked for Rove. Wilson writes:
"In what appears to be a clear conflict of interest, Craig represented Rove in his recent book deal, while Craig’s law partner, close associate and mentor, Emmet Flood, is representing Bush in executive privilege matters before the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals, where Bush administration officials have been charged with the political firings of U.S. attorneys for failing to act on orders to prosecute Democrats prior to elections."
And we thought you were a different kind of president.
Guess not.
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NEWSGUY
2 comments:
I really find this hard to believe.. I don't doubt you..but I doubt the story they are telling. He has been working for and with Pres. Obama since early 2007 and it created a huge stink because he was such a Clintonite before. I don't know when the Rove book deal came about but I know he was working for then Sen. Obama all along then.. It is possible, I am not saying it isn't.. just that I wonder about it.. nothing I could find on a search that showed him working with him anyway. But I just did a quick one.
Well, try the link to the Counterpunch story and see what it says. The link is in the fourth line of my post here. Maybe it is BS, but the story seems to be pretty detailed.
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