Murray Waas: Administration Withheld E-mails About Rove

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/10/administration-withheld-emails-about-rove

Administration withheld emails about Rove.Murray Waas’ latest in the National Journal:

The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove in installing Timothy Griffin, a protégé of Rove’s, as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

The withheld records show that D. Kyle Sampson, who was then-chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, consulted with White House officials in drafting two letters to Congress that appear to have misrepresented the circumstances of Griffin’s appointment as U.S. attorney and of Rove’s role in supporting Griffin.

http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/070510nj1.htm

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove
By Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, May 10, 2007

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In one of the letters that Sampson drafted, dated February 23, 2007, the Justice Department told four Senate Democrats it was not aware of any role played by senior White House adviser Rove in attempting to name Griffin to the U.S. attorney post. A month later, the Justice Department apologized in writing to the Senate Democrats for the earlier letter, saying it had been inaccurate in denying that Rove had played a role.

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The withheld e-mails show that Sampson's draft was forwarded for review to Chris Oprison, an associate White House counsel, who approved the language saying that Justice was not aware of Rove having played any role in supporting Griffin. But an earlier e-mail from Sampson to Oprison that has already been made public indicates that the two men discussed Rove and then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers as being at the forefront of Griffin's nomination.

Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the ranking Republican on the committee, said he was infuriated that he knew nothing of the existence of the order.

Several of the e-mails that the Bush administration is withholding from Congress, as well as papers from the White House counsel's office describing other withheld documents, were made available to National Journal by a senior executive branch official, who said that the administration has inappropriately kept many of them from Congress.

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1. Musta been a real hard decision at the white house

Don't release the emails to cover up their crime, or release them proudly to show their ignorant base how easy it is to trick fuck the constitution; a 21st century conservative value.

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2. "a 21st century conservative value"

What a wonderful phrase - excellent! This should be the mantra of all of us out here disgusted and ultra-disappointed and cheated on by conservatives who are always bragging, lying, deceiving, and twisting the truth about themselves and our country.

I hope everyone reads Waas and your phrase and starts using the phrase whenever we need to highlight there deficiencies of values. I will. "Just another 21st Century conservative value". Perhaps some won't 'get it', but within context, they won't be able to miss it.

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