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Rove Speaks Out on Subpoena
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ABC News' Mary Bruce reports: Karl Rove spoke out for the first time this morning on his subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee to testify on any involvement he may have had with the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. While Siegelman claims there was selective prosecution, Bush's former deputy chief of staff was adamant that he learned of the Siegelman case from the press.
"I'm going to simply say what I've said before, which is I found out about Don Siegelman's investigation and indictment by reading about it in the newspaper," Rove said in an exclusive "This Week" interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.
According to the House report, "In May 2007, a Republican attorney for northern Alabama, named Jill Simpson, wrote an affidavit stating that, in November 2002, she heard a prominent Alabama Republican operative named Bill Canary say that Karl Rove had contacted the Justice Department about bringing a prosecution of Don Siegelman. The question for Mr. Rove is whether he directly or indirectly discussed the possibility of prosecuting Don Siegelman with either the Justice Department or Alabama Republicans."
But when Stephanopoulos noted that Rove was not offering up a firm denial of any involvement with the Justice Department, Rove asserted, "I heard about it, read about it, learned about it for the first time by reading about it in the newspaper.”
May 25, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (22)
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The prosecution of Don Siegelman was a tragedy. Rove is another McCarthy-ite fascist and is NOT above the law.
Posted by: notLAneMore | Jul 10, 2008 12:36:09 PM
Someone in this discussion vein suggested that reporting on this matter was a waste of time, a purely political exercise, and that we should be directing our attention to other, more vital matters for the nation. Please be reminded that, should be allow officials in office to be subjected to false accusations and prosecutions for drummed up crimes they did not commit in order for opposing politicians to have them removed from office, we in turn will be no better off that people in a dictatorship. We have to care about things like what Rove has orchestrated here, and we must keep caring, and we must keep reporting when things like this happen. We call that "democracy."
Posted by: Caribel | Jul 10, 2008 12:43:04 PM
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