For the memories? For being a good little German soldier and helping to cleanse the ranks of the Justice Department? We can only ponder:
A previously overlooked e-mail from the Department of Justice document dump may turn out to be a smoking gun, of sorts, that links White House Adviser Karl Rove to the US Attorney firing scandal, reports Newsweek.
“New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici’s chief of staff sent a cryptic thank-you note to Karl Rove just as the senator was recommending replacements for David Iglesias, the fired U.S. attorney in New Mexico, according to internal White House and Justice Department documents,” writes Michael Isikoff.
“Thanks for everything,” read the e-mail, dated January 8th, 2007, which included the name of a replacement candidate for Iglesias’ position.
The email, which was sent to Rove and two other White House officials, may have been initially overlooked because it was sent to a more obscure e-mail account of Rove’s.
As someone (Josh Marshall, I think) has pointed out, the BushCo penchant for using non-official, web-based email accounts for, um, delicate communications will be their downfall. After all, you can’t even pretend to claim executive privilege on a private email account…
Nah, he was just thanking Karl for his really cool MC Rove rap-n-dance routine.
Shit, that white-boy mofo really knows how to shake his booty.
No way is that guy straight.