Karl Rove responsible for firing U.S. attorney
Surprised?
Mr. Rove has been caught with his hands in the cookie jar. McClatchy popped the top on this one. McClatchy has top notch political reporters. I don’t understand why, but they often get overlooked and it should be the other way around.
Presidential advisor Karl Rove and at least one other member of the White House political team were urged by the New Mexico Republican party chairman to fire the state’s U.S. attorney because of dissatisfaction in part with his failure to indict Democrats in a voter fraud investigation in the battleground election state.
In an interview Saturday with McClatchy Newspapers, Allen Weh, the party chairman, said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove and asked that he be removed. Weh said he followed up with Rove personally in late 2006 during a visit to the White House.
“Is anything ever going to happen to that guy?” Weh said he asked Rove at a White House holiday event that month.
“He’s gone,” Rove said, according to Weh.
Now we know why Bush got way out of town. He’s getting quite good at taking week long trips to the middle of nowhere just before something big pops.
