Karl Rove Subpoenaed by House

[RZZZA]

Finally.

http://www.theolympian.com/nationwor...ry/456864.html

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The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former White House adviser Karl Rove as part of its inquiry into whether the Bush administration politically meddled at the Justice Department.
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Accusations of politics governing decisions at the agency led to the resignation of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

The subpoena issued Thursday orders Rove to testify before the House panel on July 10. He is expected to face questions about the White House's role in firing nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 and the prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, a Democrat.

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers had negotiated with Rove's attorneys for more than a year over whether the former top political adviser to President Bush would testify voluntarily.

For many months now, since before Don Siegelman got out of jail, the house judiciary committee has been trying to get Karl Rove in to testify. He has been refusing and evading them, even trying to cite executive privilege (which doesnt apply in this case) as a a way to avoid testifying. The House got so fed up they were talking about arresting rove for contempt.

Now he has finally agreed and will have to answer many questions on june 10th about the politicization of our justice system and his role in firing U.s. attorneys and about his alleged role in jailing Alabama democratic governor Don Siegelman simply for being a democrat.

Karma is finally coming around, it's good to see at least one person in the bush administration, responsible for so much corruptness and suffering, might actually get what's coming to him.

thoughts?

[General Dissaray]

Rove will find a way out. He has spent most of his life finding ways out of messes like this. Sad but true I think. If he goes down I hope he reaches out and takes as many poeple down with him as he can, it is the least he could do for all the truble he started.

[Heinz Guderian]

Poor Karl. Cant cut a break since 2003.

[Rush Limbaugh]

He cant be questioned on this because of executive privilige. These dopes are suing OPEC . Their hopeless . No wonder they have the lowest ratting in history. Man were in for some bad times.

[Hound of Ulster]

He is not the president, therefore he doesn't have excutive priviliege.

If you right-wingers can impeach a president for getting a bj, then we liberals can call a scumbag like Rove to testify before the Congress of the republic.

END OF STORY.

[danzig]

He is not the president, therefore he doesn't have excutive priviliege.

If you right-wingers can impeach a president for getting a bj, then we liberals can call a scumbag like Rove to testify before the Congress of the republic.

END OF STORY.

Evidently you "liberals" can also distort the truth as well as "right wingers' too since Clinton faced impeachment for perjury not for a blowjob. But hey dont let facts get in the way of your little melodramatic tic for tac rant.

[RZZZA]

tic for tac? i think you mean "tit for tat".

Hound of Ulster is right, executive privilege is only applicable to talks you have with the president, in the white house, about actual policy. It's not applicable in this case, because rove did not have any of these talks with the president or in any official capacity as a member of the executive.

[Hound of Ulster]

Actually, Clinton was impeached because right-wingers couldn't get over the fact that he beat them in two elections fair and square.

It was a partisan fishing expedition on the taxpayer's time and dime.

[danzig]

Actually, Clinton was impeached because right-wingers couldn't get over the fact that he beat them in two elections fair and square.

It was a partisan fishing expedition on the taxpayer's time and dime.

Yeah sure it was, it was continuation of the same nonsense by both parities. Its been nearly 8 years and some dems still maintain Bush didnt "win" his elections either.

[Hound of Ulster]

The fact is Bush DID NOT win cleanly in 2000. There was some icky stuff that went down that should have at least been investigated.

If right-wingers can whinge about Vince Foster etc and blame 9/11 on the Clintons, then liberals can whinge about a stolen election.

[General Dissaray]

There is this guy makeing a movie fillm about how the Ohio election was tamperd with back when Bush was doing the election thing. Looks intresting, and starngly pertnat.

[danzig]

The fact is Bush DID NOT win cleanly in 2000. There was some icky stuff that went down that should have at least been investigated.

Sorry but the fact in that is delusional conspiracy theories by people who cant accept that their "great" hero Al Gore was defeated by a mental midget from Texas.

If right-wingers can whinge about Vince Foster etc and blame 9/11 on the Clintons, then liberals can whinge about a stolen election.

The basis of your posts in this thread are pretty absurd...if X can do it why cant we. Just what our government needs the continuation of politics befitting of children bickering on a playground. Wrong is wrong and perhaps if you took off the left wing/right wing sunglasses you'd see that.

I see this in the future:

no what you should see in the future if it ever came close to that are two words, presidential pardon. Standard mode of operation for exiting President pardon every lackey, friend or people they owe over their presidency and before someone says it yes Clinton did it as well.

[Admiral Piett]

Karl Rove will either get pardoned, serve a small sentence, or pay a fine - unless the administration has chosen him as the fall guy.

[RZZZA]

Karl Rove will either get pardoned, serve a small sentence, or pay a fine - unless the administration has chosen him as the fall guy.

if he lies under oath, or admits to some wrong doing, it'll ruin his political career. Maybe Fox will fire him as an analyst. Really goes to show what kind of people fox likes to hire. Criminals, corrupt officials, etc.

I like how this is unfolding, I can only hope that some astonishing revelations will be made on june 10th, i hope he's caught perjuring himself, I hope he suffers as a result and gets thrown in jail like he had Don Siegelman thrown in jail. (allegedly).

[Heinz Guderian]

. Maybe Fox will fire him as an analyst. .

Fox employs him??? GTFO.

[General Dissaray]

Yep ol' Karl is their chief evil corispondant. Wate that isn't right. he is the political consultant or some thing like that. He is always on there saying how people can sell their soul to win an office, or some thing like that.

[fatsheep]

Can someone refresh me on all the reasons why people hate Karl Rove?

[RZZZA]

Can someone refresh me on all the reasons why people hate Karl Rove?

He's the Great Satan of the left, feared and admired for his so-called "political genius". Democrats everywhere were soundly beaten by rove in 00' and 04', some even went on to try and emulate his style, they figured if they cant beat em then join him.


now Rove is an analyst on Fox News (fair and balanced) and he acts as an unofficial adviser of sorts to the McCain campaign.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Clinton should have been impeached for NAFTA.

And frow what I've read of the case, it looks like a misue of power. Hope Rove gets charged on this.

[RZZZA]

thats why i said allegedly