Did Bush Know About Rove’s Involvement?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Law, The War On Terrorism, WarOf course he did. Like a President doesn’t know these things when his main guy is getting called before a grand jury.
From Thomas DeFrank.
WASHINGTON - An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair, sources told the Daily News.
“He made his displeasure known to Karl,” a presidential counselor told The News. “He made his life miserable about this.”Bush has nevertheless remained doggedly loyal to Rove, who friends and even political adversaries acknowledge is the architect of the President’s rise from baseball owner to leader of the free world.
Doggedly loyal to say the very least. Rove is THE architect of one of the most unlikely political success stories in history. Do you think you’d really not be loyal to somebody, even if you knew they screwed up?
Here’s more:
Other sources confirmed, however, that Bush was initially furious with Rove in 2003 when his deputy chief of staff conceded he had talked to the press about the Plame leak.Bush has always known that Rove often talks with reporters anonymously and he generally approved of such contacts, one source said.
But the President felt Rove and other members of the White House damage-control team did a clumsy job in their campaign to discredit Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, the ex-diplomat who criticized Bush’s claim that Saddam Hussen tried to buy weapons-grade uranium in Niger.
A second well-placed source said some recently published reports implying Rove had deceived Bush about his involvement in the Wilson counterattack were incorrect and were leaked by White House aides trying to protect the President.
Who knows, this could still all be spin, but I’m pretty curious as to what this week will bring.
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October 21st, 2005 at 10:04 am
Bush had to know that Rove and Libby were trying to spin Plame and Wilson in a negative light. The question isn’t whether or not Rove or Libby knew that they were committing a crime, the question is whether Bush will take the stand and Lie about whether or not he knew that they were out to discredit Wilson. Then I pray he does lie, and he gets impeached for lying under oath, just like they did to Clinton. It would be all too beautiful a thing.