"Bush's Brain" author Moore: "The Knower of All-Knowing Knowledge: Rove"

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jim-moore/the-knower-of-allknowing_4064.html

(Senator Bob) Glasgow resumed by asking Rove if he "knew" an FBI agent named Greg Rampton. Rove, just as his attorney Robert Luskin is presently doing, turned language manipulation into an art form. "Depends on what you mean by 'know,' senator," Rove explained. (Years before Bill Clinton was asking what the definition of is - is, Rove wanted to know what was meant by know.)

The answer he gave the committee proscribes precisely the word play Luskin is engaged in presently as he explains that Rove did not "knowingly" expose Valerie Plame. Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will have a hard time proving what Karl Rove "knew" just as the Texas Senate was unable to get Rove to admit he "knew" and worked with an FBI agent on investigations into the offices of the land commissioner, lieutenant governor, ag commissioner, and anyone else who had a D beside their name. Not a one of them ever faced charges but everyone of them endured political harm caused by the investigation and the constant leaking of information in advance about subpoaenas and the types of records a "federal investigator" was seeking.

The hallmarks of a Rove smear job are always the same: leak, lie, defame, obfuscate, and deny. He did it when he began a whisper campaign about Gov. Ann Richards' sexuality. He did it when he used surrogates in South Carolina to suggest that Sen. John McCain was mentally unstable and may have fathered a black child out of wedlock and he did it in the last election when he used the Swift Boat Veterans as a front group to proffer lies about John Kerry's time in Vietnam.

But hell, I don't know how to do anything but laugh about it all because I'm confident he is going to get away with it all again.