Comments on: DOJ Doesn’t Want to Say Whether It Agrees that Karl’s “Official Duties” Include Witch Hunts

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:03:29 +0000

Now that it’s come out that the Bush administration, or perhaps the Sec. of State, is opening an ‘office of interest’ in Iran and that face-to-face negotiations may soon occur it means the Congressional Dems and Patrick Fitzgerald have less to fear from a sudden Bush attack (preemptive defense) on Iran.

Soooo, does that mean there’s a greater latitude for Congress to impeach?

Surely a Q&A with Rove on politics in government would be enlightening.

By: leveymg

leveymg — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:51:11 +0000

There’s an Explanation for Why Rove Wasn’t Indicted

Many of us have concluded that Fitz gave Rove limited immunity in exchange for the goods on Bush’s role in the Plame outing, of which Karl had personal knowledge. Fitz was then persuaded to not pursue the President, and to keep Bush’s complicity under wraps, but some sort of deal was made. Something tells me all this effectively stopped the plan to expand the war into Iran.

- Mark

By: Citizen92

Citizen92 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:04:22 +0000

Since I got it wrong, to correct for the record, EOP protocol makes his official e-mail Karl_C._Rove@who.eop.gov

By: Citizen92

Citizen92 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:51:11 +0000

As you said, looks like EOP one. It took Rove +/- one minute to respond to Fournier.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:44:16 +0000

Emails are here. Rove email on p. 6 of 17.

Btw, Rove also had (may still have) a personal domain with email.

As a general rule, people who were employees or volunteers of the 2000 Bush campaign before he won the nomination had georgewbush.com accounts. rnchq.org and gwb43.com were actual RNC domains.

By: Citizen92

Citizen92 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:29:04 +0000

The report didn’t show an image of Karl’s e-mail which is why I’m speculating.

I’ve read anecdotes that it was an “open secret” about the gwb43.com system being used before CREW/Waxman/Froomkin made an issue of it and eyes were opened.

If Karl mailed Fournier from his RNC account that’s evidence that their relationship was indeed ‘breezy’ and substantiation that it very well may be been an open secret.

If Karl mailed from the eop account, well, not so much.

And then, of course, there’s the possibility it could have come through an entirely different account…

I think we only know of two Karl accounts right now:
Rove_Karl_C.@who.eop.gov
kr@georgewbush.com

I’ve never seen any evidence that Karl was emailing from gwb43.com, which was the favoured domain of his minions and most senior staff. No, for some reason Karl stuck with georgewbush.com

By: AZ Matt

AZ Matt — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:28:18 +0000

So EW, how many times did you ring that number?

Did they start getting weird on you?

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:12:18 +0000

That is almost certainly his WH account. The display name format matches the WH style (LastName, FirstName [MI Optional]) rather than the RNC style (FirstName LastName [ - Group Optional]).

I can verify against known samples when I get home in a few hours.

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:28:06 +0000

Bmaz, speaking of irony, I hope Radomski’s TV is at least six years
old….
Whatta amazing drama…

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....id=3491931

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:21:08 +0000

Not yet, but didn’t he tell the Wilson’s to fuck off…
I don’t trust anyone (as Ashcroft said today, ironically, “Trust but
Verify”)