{"id":669,"date":"2007-03-15T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T02:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2017-06-06T04:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T10:20:01","slug":"attorneygate-all-roads-lead-to-rove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/attorneygate-all-roads-lead-to-rove\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorneygate: &#8220;All roads lead to Rove&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salon.com<br \/>\nBy Sidney Blumenthal<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/031507karl_rove1.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/031507karl_rove.thumbnail1.jpg\" alt=\"031507karl_rove.jpg\" align= \"left\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nThe White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration&#8217;s clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration&#8217;s first instinct was to shield Karl Rove from scrutiny when Congress began inquiring about the unusual firings of eight U.S. attorneys. Among the replacements, the proposed new U.S. attorney for Arkansas happened to be one of Rove&#8217;s most devoted underlings, his head of opposition research, Tim Griffin, who boasted during the 2000 presidential election about the effectiveness of the negative campaign against Al Gore: &#8220;We make the bullets!&#8221; Griffin also posted a sign in his department at Bush headquarters: &#8220;Rain hell on Al!&#8221; A letter written by the Department of Justice in late February informed Congress: &#8220;The department is not aware of Karl Rove playing any role in the decision to appoint Mr. Griffin.&#8221; Despite this categorical disavowal, a sheaf of internal Justice Department e-mails released this week to Congress under subpoena revealed Kyle Sampson, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales&#8217; chief of staff, writing in mid-December 2006, &#8220;I know getting him appointed was important to Harriet, Karl, etc.&#8221; Harriet, of course, was Harriet Miers, then the White House legal counsel.<\/p>\n<p>(More)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon.com By Sidney Blumenthal The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration&#8217;s clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise. 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