Why was Rove coaching a DOJ official on their testimony before Congress?

[journalist3072]

Under no circumstances can anyone think it appropriate for Karl Rove, nothing more than Bushie's glorified political guru, to be participating in a meeting at the White House in which he coached a top DOJ official on their upcoming testimony before Congress regarding the purge of U.S. attorneys. The White House is clueless if they can't see how inappropriate this is. And even more importantly, the Congress is clueless if they don't subpoena Rove ASAP and compell him to testify.

From Newsweek:

Deputy chief of staff Karl Rove participated in a hastily called meeting at the White House two months ago. The subject: The firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year. The purpose: to coach a top Justice Department official heading to Capitol Hill to testify on the prosecutorial purge on what he should say.

Now some investigators are saying that Rove’s attendance at the meeting shows that the president’s chief political adviser may have been involved in an attempt to mislead Congress—one more reason they are demanding to see his e-mails and force him to testify under oath.

At the March 5, 2007, meeting, White House aides, including counsel Fred Fielding and deputy counsel William Kelley, sought to shape testimony that Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General William Moschella was to give the next day before the House Judiciary Committee.

Although the existence of the White House meeting had been previously disclosed by the Justice Department, Rove’s attendance at the strategy session was not—until both Moschella and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty talked about it in confidential testimony with congressional investigators last week. Portions of their testimony were read to NEWSWEEK by a Democratic aide who asked not to be identified talking about private matters.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18479265/site/newsweek/

[MadMaddie]

1. Is Rove a lawyer? Because if he isn't and he is coaching

these so called DOJ lawyers then the DOJ is in a bigger mess than we think? Think about it...if Rove is not a lawyer he doesn't have a law degree...if he doesn't have the degree and experience how is he coaching degreed lawyers?

:wtf:

[journalist3072]

2. Precisely my point! The White House already has a valid, legal apparatis in place

to handle matters such as DOJ officials having to testify before Congress.

They did not need the political guru there.

For me, it just demonstrates that for this White House, EVERYTHING is political. This is THE most political White House we have seen.

And it goes to show they were not concerned about telling the truth. They were more concerned in making sure the DOJ official told Congress what it wanted to hear.

[icymist]

3. Of course it means that Rove has something to hide and he's...

going through great extremes to make sure it stays hidden. These guys are beginning to trip over themselves.

[MadMaddie]

4. You know what...I am really beginning to believe that if the Dems

are able to pull Roves fat ass out of the hole in the Dam that the whole Administration will crumble....I think the Repugs know this and they are starting to jump ship....if he has no access.....they are in trouble....

[Frustratedlady]

7. I don't think he even graduated from college. n/t

[Bitwit1234]

5. That's exactly why the white house and the whole damn administration

is protecting rove and setting up roadblocks to him. They know damn well if the committee gets something on rove the whole structure will crumble..there's no one in DC with the evil, dirty tricks, underhanded type of mind this turd (blossom) has. For once bush picked the correct nick name.

[MN ChimpH8R]

6. It ALL goes back to KKKarl in this

sewer. His number one goal was to turn the whole goddamned federal government into an extension of the Repig party, right down to the freaking file clerks. Replace anyone competent with an apparatchik, and I do not use this term by accident. The blueprint for the Repig game plan (one party rule, total surveillance, generally egomaniacal murderous chaos, et al) was authored by this fellow:



KKKarl is Uncle Joe's most faithful disciple