Don't expect the truth from Karl Rove
By James C. Moore, JAMES C. MOORE co-wrote "Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential" with Wayne Slater.
James Moore's Op-Ed "Don't expect the truth from Karl Rove" is a keen insight into how Rove operates. Moore recounts past Rove performances while under oath. Rove is a master of semantical gymnastics and I agree.
But I found these 3 paragraphs very interesting. Moore tells of the 1993 pre-trial hearing of Rove client Kay Bailey Hutchinson and the verbal acrobatics (dressed up lies)produced by Rove at the hearing.
Here are the 3 paragraphs:
Rove's memory also made some creative leaps during a pretrial hearing in 1993. Travis County Dist. Atty. Ronnie Earle was preparing to prosecute Rove client Kay Bailey Hutchison, who was the Texas state treasurer. A grand jury had indicted her for allegedly using government phones and computers to raise campaign money. When law enforcement officers raided the treasurer's building to confiscate evidence, reporters documented the whole thing.
Hutchison's attorneys filed for a change of venue because of a perceived political and media imbalance, which they insisted made a fair trial impossible in Austin. Rove, called to the stand to offer evidence of bias against Republicans, told the court that two reporters had informed him that they were tipped off to the raid by D.A. investigators.
Under oath, Rove named David Elliot of the Austin American-Statesman and Wayne Slater from the Dallas Morning News as the reporters. Both men later told me they hadn't spoken with Rove, nor had they told anyone they had received a tip from the D.A.'s office. They had gotten a call from staffers at the treasurer's office, which is precisely how all of the other journalists, including myself, learned about the raid.
Please notice the third paragraph reproduced here:
Under oath, Rove named David Elliot of the Austin American-Statesman and Wayne Slater from the Dallas Morning News as the reporters. Both men later told me they hadn't spoken with Rove, nor had they told anyone they had received a tip from the D.A.'s office. They had gotten a call from staffers at the treasurer's office, which is precisely how all of the other journalists, including myself, learned about the raid.
My point is now we know who conceived the Scooter Libby defense from the start! Karl Rove!
All roads lead to Rove!
But I also agree with Moore that in any hearing no one will get a straight answer from Karl Rove. Not that I think Rove should not be made to testify under oath. But as Moore's Op-Ed implies. Congress won't get much from Rove.
Miers or Kyle Sampson seem like good bets for a repeat of the Scooter Libby soap opera resulting from her testimony to Congress. If it ever gets that far.
Here's the entire Op-Ed:
http://www.latimes.com/...
My statement of the similarity of Rove's and Libby's defense were verified by Wayne Slater on Friday's Countdown with Keith Olberman. Slater has been following Karl Rove's public life for over 20 years.
Thanks Keith Olberman.