"Earlier, I flagged an email in today's document dump that showed Kyle Sampson preparing to run his letter to Congress by the White House.
The letter stated, "The Department is not aware of Karl Rove playing any role in the decision to appoint (Karl Rove's former aide Timothy) Griffin" to serve as US Attorney. Sampson told fellow Justice Department officials that "because this letter mentions Rove and alludes to Harriet, I'd like to send it to the (White House Counsel's Office) for their review..."
That claim -- that Rove and Miers had no role -- is one Sampson's own earlier emails show to be false.
In an email Sampson wrote in December to one Christopher Oprison, associate counsel to the President, Sampson told Oprison that Griffin's appointment was "important to Harriet, Karl, etc."
In other words, back in December, Sampson told Oprison of Karl Rove's and Harriet Miers' role in Griffin's hiring."
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