He's a clown
That smug apparatchik
He's gonna get in trouble just you wait and see !

Why is eva body always pickin' on me ?

In the interests of bipartisanship, I propose that Rove be made amabassador somewhere.

(please, folks, this is snark ).

Rove insists he was merely a "conduit"

Yes, he hosed everyone who got in his way.

It was always a teeny bit odd that a man known entirely for a career as a no-holds-barred political campaign director got a top spot in the office of the President of the United States.

Why, that lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit!

With apologies to Clark Griswold

Thank goodness WaPo is covering this. The NYT is, instead, once again allowing itself to be used as a Rove propaganda rag, publishing his unchallenged "side" of the story.

"... played a greater role than previously understood ..."

I think most people who keep up with this site understood quite a bit already about Rove's role.

It may be "a long way from over" but is it ever going to amount to more than percolating?

The deference that mouthy tub o'lard gets is unbelievable.

All of us who understand what damage this traitorous turd did to the U.S. are still hoping for his "frogwalk" to the penitentiary.

Wasn't Rove in charge of policies or some such unprecedented title? How could his role in anything be "small" then?

The US Attorneys' serve at the pleasure of the President! (That would be our last authentic US President ...) Why do you liberals hate Presidential pleasure?!

The fat ass I want to see nailed to the barn door belongs to Monica Goodling. I was blown away when she first resigned (pretty much waving a sign that read, "I'm guilty of something, because innocent people don't resign"), and then REFUSED TO TESTIFY!! I had no idea you could do that - how liberating! Rob the liquor store, then when you're pulled in as a suspect, refuse to say anything! What could be simpler? Nobody can be held accountable for anything if you can't make them admit guilt.

And, of course, the candy-ass justice system of the time let her get away with it.

I no longer have any anticipation that Rove or anyone else will be effectively investigated and exposed for their crimes. It's all a pretend dance designed to outlast the notoriously short memories of the public. The investigations will be quietly dropped and the targets of investigation will sit in cushy well-paid jobs until the next Republican administration, at which time they will be moved back into government to show others how their criminal activities are conducted.

The price of the conflict that will be published or broadcast in the media if any of the Republicans are actually exposed for criminal wrong-doing will be considered too high for any sitting politician of any party to let go forward.

Second the commenter above who called bullshit on this:

"Political adviser Karl Rove and other high-ranking figures in the Bush White House played a greater role than previously understood in the firing of federal prosecutors almost three years ago"

It's been pretty clear that there was a movement to completely politicize the administration of justice in this country, and I don't think W is smart enough or malevolent enough to come up with that idea himself.

If by 'hosed' you mean killed ie Mike Connell ...

Rove insists he was merely a "conduit" between White House lawyers and GOP officials.

Yeah right, Rove worked all these years as an attack dog just so he could become some lawyers messenger boy. At least we are getting past the non-denial denials. To bad Karl gets to time the revelations, letting them trickle out underneath the "beer summits", the Sotomayor circus and the healthcare fight.

Its time for a "free Siegelman" campaign with "Don Sieglman has been in jail for NNN days" counter on the top of every liberal blog.

Rove insists he was merely a "conduit" between White House lawyers and GOP officials, but the documents reportedly point to some extensive work Rove did on the issue.

Even if Rove was merely a "conduit," his admission could be tantamount to confessing a role in a criminal conspiracy. A bagman is just a conduit, too, after all.

The NYT article was very disappointing. They tell me that Karl just passed along complaints from Senators and Congresspeople but they don't tell me what the Senators and Congresspeople were complaining about. And that is the crux of the issue. The USAs who were fired were fired for failing to pursue prosecutions of political opponents or for advancing prosecutions of political friends. That's where the obstruction of justice comes in.

It's frustrating that Conyers and the House Judiciary Committee has been pursuing the DOJ firings before pursuing the vote caging scandal, also emanating out of Rove's office. From what has been made public, it seems the evidence against Tim Griffin, (one of the USA appointees mentioned above) is solid and damning - he was sending the White House lists of likely Democratic voters to scrub - from Rove's RNC mail server. An immediate investigation should have been launched to determine the caging criteria because it suggests thousands of counts of federal election law violations. Griffin resigned minutes after this was announced on BBC but the story remains whitewashed in US media - why?

Rove's trashing of Presidential records is also a sorely under-investigated angle here. Selective enforcement suggests the Dems did it too, or Rove has something on the Dems he is holding over them. Disgusting - the HJC's lack of transparency shows disdain for the American public.