A Panicked Rove?
Apr 20th, 2008 at 3:21 pm by Susie
I emailed Scott Horton, to ask him what he makes of Rove’s letter–which, I said, “seems to me to be the outburst of a very anxious man.”
Here is Scott’s reply:
“Rove has been described to me by several of my GOP sources in Alabama as being in a state of panic. He has been pressing senior Alabama GOP figures to speak out for him and to attack me and Jill Simpson, as well as CBS and MSNBC. But they’re keeping quiet, which shows more political smarts than Rove, frankly. Of course Rove has a simple objective here. He wants to know all the underlying evidence that has been accumulated to make a case against him and he’s desperate to know it before he speaks any more about it. Which is precisely why CBS, MSNBC and others will keep things close to the vest.
“But just to show you how ridiculous his tantrum is. He asks how I “know” he was involved in strategizing and fundraising. Of course he wants the names of my sources in Alabama so he can have them pressured and pilloried. But his involvement is established just by looking at the White House website. The key fundraising event of the campaign was the July 15, 2002 fundraiser for Riley in Birmingham - it brought in $4 million. It was arranged by Karl Rove, working closely with Bill Canary. President Bush was the featured draw. How can he deny he was involved in fundraising and strategizing? The very effort is absurd.
“The evidence linking him to the use of the Siegelman case as a technique is of course thinner. That’s because this is a felony, and those involved in it are not going to speak voluntarily. Which is why his denial should be under oath and subject to crossexamination, just as Jill Simpson’s was.”
I fantasize daily about Karl’s perp walk.
A Rove perp walk would be even better than getting a pony.
And wouldn’t it be a wonderful and ironic hoot if Rove gets what he so justly deserves for what he did to Plame, long after he had dodged that bullet completely, and at a time when he must have been feeling that he had beaten them all?
Wonderful, just wonderful, IF it happens.
JGug
I’m sure Rove is, um, anxious. However, what is he dodging? A lot of bad press and a pardon? At best. No? Say he makes to Congress in May and he either takes the 5th or lies. Maybe someone takes charges to a grand jury in June and indictments are handed down in July. He goes to court in August, loses and has a sentencing hearing in September, files an appeal in October, and so on. Bush pardons him at the end of December. In a way, assuming he knows he’s going to get caught for something or another, it’s probably better for Rove to be under investigation and get a pardon than to face charges next year.
Alas.