Rove coached Justice staff before key hearing

Michael Rolston, rawstory.com

Top White House political adviser Karl Rove coached a Justice Department staff member before he testified to a Congressional commitee in March, according to a report in Newsweek. Some investigators reportedly believe that he may have tried to “mislead” Congress.

“Although the existence of the White House meeting had been previously disclosed by the Justice Department, Rove’s attendance at the strategy session was not-until both [Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General William] Moscella and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty talked about it in confidential testimony with congressional investigators last week,” according to a Democratic aide who spoke with Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff.

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