If you've been following my last couple of posts, you know they have involved discussing the involvement of Rove in all of this regarding the Prosecutor purge.
Well, um, it appears that the White House has been lying about all of this -- especially regarding the role of Karl Rove:
New unreleased emails from top administration officials show the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than previously acknowledged by the White House. The e-mails also show Alberto Gonzales discussed the idea of firing the attorneys en masse while he was still White House counsel—weeks before he was confirmed as attorney general.
The e-mails directly contradict White House assertions that the notion originated with recently departed White House counsel Harriet Miers and was her idea alone.
Why do I think that Harriet's tired of having all of this dropped on her? Do you think she's the source for this one?
And, btw, this means that Gonzales has now lied several times -- to congress, the American people, and Miles O'Brien.
After all this, I can't see how he makes it past 5:00 tomorrow as Attorney General.
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Dammit, Bush should have nominated Rove for the Supreme Court!
So, it wasn't Harriet who originated the idea (as the original WaPo story had it).
It's so unfair, isn't it? Karl does all the work, and Harriet gets all the credit.
If I were Rove, I wouldn't take that from Him.
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There's one more layer before we get Rove though
That's the Big News for tomorrow. We have confirmation that these things came from Rove's office. Who until recently ran Rove's office?
Scooter Libby.
He'll be joining Harriet in the "Blame Them! They Did it!" cage of scorn possibly before the night is out.
Then Rove replays the slightly sweat-soaked "It's a big office, I can't know what every single person is doing" card once Gonzales dries it off and couriers it over to him.
jon stewart explains it all in video
Quite frankly I've found this Dept. of Justice firings business very complicated, and a bit boring. Thankfully, Jon Stewart explains it to me in this video: http://minor-ripper.blogspot.com/2007/03/jon-stewart-explains-department-of.html