A Time for Change

The Man George Bush called “Turd Blossom”

According to CNN, Karl Rove will finally be interviewed in the ongoing criminal investigation into the firing of US attorneys during the Bush administration.  Rove will be questioned by Nora Dannehy, a Connecticut prosecutor who was appointed last year to lead an investigation into whether any Bush administration officials broke any laws in connection with the dismissals.”  The Washington Post reports:

Dannehy mostly has operated in the shadows, quietly issuing subpoenas for documents through a federal grand jury in the District. But in recent weeks she has interviewed other former government aides, including White House political deputies Scott Jennings and Sarah Taylor. She also has reached out to representatives for former  Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and his chief of staff, Steve Bell, in an effort to determine whether New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias was removed for improper political reasons.

The firings were the subject of a lengthy report released last fall by the Justice Department’s inspector general and the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility. Investigators there uncovered improper political motivations in the firings of several of the nine dismissed federal prosecutors.

But the department’s own probe was thwarted in part because the inspector general’s agents did not have the authority to compel testimony from Bush White House advisers and lawmakers.

In response, then-Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey handpicked Dannehy, a career prosecutor who made her reputation trying public corruption cases, in September 2008.

The prosecutor firings also are the subject of intense interest from the House Judiciary Committee, which had sued former Bush aides Harriet E. Miers and Joshua B. Bolten for access to testimony and documents. Both sides reached a settlement earlier this year after high-level involvement by lawyers for Bush, new White House counsel Gregory Craig and U.S. House general counsel Irvin B. Nathan.

Rove and Miers are tentatively scheduled to provide closed-door testimony to House Judiciary Committee Chairman  John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and other members of the panel sometime next month.

I hope you have time to read the report because it certainly is enlightening and you will see that the improper conduct of the Bush administration did not end at torture.

Rove has also been suspected in having outer Valerie Plame and various other dirty tricks that would have made Dick Nixon proud.  That is why that heady feeling of absolute power is not not a good thing –  it leads to abuse.  In any event, it takes a certain brand of chutzpah for Rove to be wandering around now as some sort of  political talking head criticizing people such as Nancy Pelosi about what she did or did not know about torture.

Rove’s hands are far from clean about many more things than they could ever blame on Pelosi.

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