Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed tomorrow as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, according to two sources familiar with the appointment.
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He will be questioned tomorrow by Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy, who was named last year to examine whether any former senior Justice Department and White House officials lied or obstructed justice in connection with the dismissal of federal prosecutors in 2006.
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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.
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He will be questioned tomorrow by Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy, who was named last year to examine whether any former senior Justice Department and White House officials lied or obstructed justice in connection with the dismissal of federal prosecutors in 2006.
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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.
They also add, for those keeping track…
Rove and [former Bush WH Counsel Harriet] 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.
UPDATE 5/15/09: RAW STORY’s Larisa Alexandrovna has a number of questions she’d like to see asked of Rove, in regard to the Siegelman case.
At right is the video from Rove’s appearance at his attorney’s office this morning to meet federal prosecutors for his questioning (via RAW).
What do ya bet amnesia will take hold of him? Maybe he needs to be tortured?
“They also add, for those keeping track” (I might be off a word or so.)at start of last paragraph:
thanks for the smile.
“I don’t recall.” The Fifth Ammendment defense without any of that inconvenient contempt of court trouble.
waterboard the a**hole …get justice Karl!
Yeah, let’s see Rove pop just like an abcessed pimple. He’s kind of round, unnaturally white, and septic. There might need to be an excorcist called in. I wouldn’t want to stand any where near him. Maybe his head will spin clockwise, then counter-clockwise. Watch out for flying decayed tissue. Rather like the movie Alien, the body fluids of all things Rovian, have been known to act as white phosphorous (virtual napalm) which has been recognized to have melted the bodies of many many civillians in Fallujah, men, women and children. This was Rovian/Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield/Bolton, and I will refrain from going on, but you know em. Well, The poisonous, septic, empty soil…er, I mean soul of Karl Rove, when his mouth opens, hundred of vampire bats will fly out. The ghosts of hundreds of thousands of human beings who died, will emerge. All because assholes like Rove, were just operating in their government/media/military industrial complex. Rove is just one of the boys, makin money in the weapons industry. Power is where the money is, and that’s all Rove and his boys are about. The walls of Congress will take on a blood red cast from the presence of this poisonous, reptilian, ball of pus, finally hisses.
Closed door, where Conyers does his most effective work, making sure no action is taken. Justice with Conyers involved, never.
Let’s just see. Look, Rove is actually going to be in a hot seat, being questioned. Who knows what barricades the Karly boy crooks have thrown in the way of Conyers.
Nothing short of disastrous for Conyers if they so decide. Can we know?
No, all we can do is hope for justice, for now. Is that all we got these days? Maybe that is the promise, he left us with, that he truly kept, and that’s all we got from the big O. HOPE.
Well, I’m still hanging on to it, hope that is. Sigh.
Let’s just hope to God that they place this LYING BASTARD under oath because he will lie like a dog and maybe someday they can prosecute him for perjury.
Wilburrr… ~ Why do humans give testimony and defaecate behind closed doors . . .
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So Karl was feeling in good spirits when he arrived for the interview,huh? Make me puke!