Obvious? - Reason Rove Wanted To Get Rid Of All USA Attorneys Was To Get Rid Of Fitzgerald

[kpete]

It is now well established that, in the opening days of President Bush's second term, Senior Presidential Advisor Karl Rove raised the idea with officials in the White House Counsel's office of replacing some or all U.S. Attorneys. At this point, however, it is not known why Mr. Rove was interested in this issue, although he was at that time under investigation by a sitting U.S. Attorney and had testified twice before a federal grand jury in the matter.

This is one of the nice bits of the report that (as I said before) allays some of my doubts about the Rove subpoena.. It insinuates what many in the blogosphere have stated directly: that the most obvious reason Rove might have wanted to get rid of all the USAs was to get rid of Patrick Fitzgerald.

more at:
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/07/the-usa-purge-t.html#comments

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. No it wasn't. It was because his "numbers" were showing him something

completely different than what he was telling the RW hate machine, and in order to secure his dream as Father of a permanent Republican Rule he had to put his people in the key positions before 2008 elections.

[unpossibles]

2. no, it's to continue cooking the elections

they obviously hate democracy - look at all of the proof from vote caging to disenfranchising to just changing the numbers to foreign (and domestic, imo) coups and regime changes - and the only way to retain the "permanent majority" is without the support of the voters. They get people to not trust the government by saying it doesn't work, it's corrupt, everyone's the same, don't bother to vote because that's just what MTV tells you to do, etc. which makes it easier to take over.

What makes that even easier? Owning the judicial system which could challenge their fraud.

[bridgit]

3. that was my take as well, Rove's intent was to paper the walls with inuendo...

and shit talk in the run-up to every dem candidate that threatened a republican seat

[Virginia Dare]

4. It was just another step taken toward their desired plutocracy...n/t

[On the Road]

5. I'm Being Dense Here

How would firing eight US Attorneys get rid of Fitzgerald?

[peacetalksforall]

6. Ever since I learned about their 'grooming' schools I interpret their actions as

fulfillment and massaging. By grooming, I mean judges, prosecutors, lawyers, civic employees, teachers, school boards, sheriffs .....etc. - local, district, state, federal. Prime example - Monica Goodling - the populating of positions with graduates of religious right schools - Norm Coleman, Thune - selecting lap dogs and getting them 'elected'. That woman who used a taxpayer government department, premises, employee time to conduct (major?) stategy meetings for the RNC and WH - these are front page examples like the Attorneys - equal damage is going on at all levels all over the country. And we can't ignore the money probably stolen from the taxpayers to pay for the think tanks who work out the details, kick it off, then publicize their positions in supposedly 'expert' appearances on C-Span and corporate tv - AIE, AIPAC, etc.)

I don't deny that Rove would pull a Rovian to save himself - but it's just one trick in his $%^#U^### bucket.