These lefties just won’t quit. Look at the headline of this story:
Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove
Wow, Bush withheld documents?
The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove in installing Timothy Griffin, a protégé of Rove’s, as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
The withheld records show that D. Kyle Sampson, who was then-chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, consulted with White House officials in drafting two letters to Congress that appear to have misrepresented the circumstances of Griffin’s appointment as U.S. attorney and of Rove’s role in supporting Griffin.
In one of the letters that Sampson drafted, dated February 23, 2007, the Justice Department told four Senate Democrats it was not aware of any role played by senior White House adviser Rove in attempting to name Griffin to the U.S. attorney post. A month later, the Justice Department apologized in writing to the Senate Democrats for the earlier letter, saying it had been inaccurate in denying that Rove had played a role.
Bad news right? Well hold on a sec:
The senior official said that Gonzales, in preparing for testimony before Congress, has personally reviewed the withheld records and has a responsibility to make public any information he has about efforts by his former chief of staff, other department aides, and White House officials to conceal Rove’s role.
"If [Gonzales] didn’t know everything that was going on when it went down, that is one thing," this official said. "But he knows and understands chapter and verse. If there was an effort within Justice and the White House to mislead Congress, it is his duty to disclose that to Congress. As the country’s chief law enforcement official, he has a higher duty to disclose than to protect himself or the administration."
White House spokesman Tony Fratto denied that the White House was withholding records in the Justice Department’s possession, and he said that Gonzales could make many of them public at any time. "The White House is neither guiding nor directing the Justice Department’s decisions on privileged documents," Fratto said. "They make those decisions on their own."
Oh, so Justice is withholding the documents…..
But I thought the byline of this story is that Bush did?
Yeah.
Anyways the story is old old news. In February Justice said Rove wasn’t involved, then in March they said they had a mistake and that Rove was involved. All this was revealed two months ago.
But again, here is the clincher. It was NOT illegal to fire these prosecutors. They serve at the pleasure of the President and he did not need ANY reason to let them go. Rove’s guy, Tim Griffin, is qualified to hold that position.
It’s called a political appointment of a qualified individual.
End of story.
But we know the lefts show trials won’t stop here in their quest for power.
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