Cryptic thank-you note may link Rove to US Attorney scandal
 A previously overlooked e-mail from the Department of Justice document dump may turn out to be a smoking gun, of sorts, that links White House Adviser Karl Rove to the US Attorney firing scandal, reports Newsweek.
"New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici's chief of staff sent a cryptic thank-you note to Karl Rove just as the senator was recommending replacements for David Iglesias, the fired U.S. attorney in New Mexico, according to internal White House and Justice Department documents," writes Michael Isikoff.
"Thanks for everything," read the e-mail, dated January 8th, 2007, which included the name of a replacement candidate for Iglesias' position.
The email, which was sent to Rove and two other White House officials, may have been initially overlooked because it was sent to a more obscure e-mail account of Rove's.
Though it is unknown why Rove was being thanked, Iglesias is convinced that the e-mail implicates Rove.
"This absolutely corroborates what I’ve been saying all along—this is a political matter, not a performance matter," Iglesias told Newsweek after being read the e-mail. "What is he thanking him [Rove] for? It's thanking him for getting Dave out of the picture."
Domenici's press secretary refused to comment on the email.
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