{"id":2797,"date":"2007-07-24T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2017-05-21T02:38:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:38:31","slug":"rove-briefed-foreign-diplomats-on-gop-election-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/rove-briefed-foreign-diplomats-on-gop-election-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rove Briefed Foreign Diplomats on GOP Election Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Kane, Washington Post<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/rove1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/rove1.thumbnail.gif\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>White House aides have conducted at least half a dozen political briefings for the Bush administration&#8217;s top diplomats, including a PowerPoint presentation for ambassadors with senior adviser Karl Rove that named Democratic incumbents targeted for defeat in 2008 and a &#8220;general political briefing&#8221; at the Peace Corps headquarters after the 2002 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The briefings, mostly run by Rove&#8217;s deputies at the White House political affairs office, began in early 2001 and included detailed analyses for senior officials of the political landscape surrounding critical congressional and gubernatorial races, according to documents obtained by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The documents show for the first time how the White House sought to ensure that even its appointees involved in foreign policy were kept attuned to the administration&#8217;s election goals. Such briefings occurred semi-regularly over the past six years for staffers dealing with domestic policy, White House officials have previously acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/23\/AR2007072301907.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Kane, Washington Post White House aides have conducted at least half a dozen political briefings for the Bush administration&#8217;s top diplomats, including a PowerPoint presentation for ambassadors with senior adviser Karl Rove that named Democratic incumbents targeted for defeat in 2008 and a &#8220;general political briefing&#8221; at the Peace Corps headquarters after the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rove Briefed Foreign Diplomats on GOP Election Strategy &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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