Rove Behavior - Could it be Bush's Watergate? Houston Chron, Repub OpEd

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Aug. 20, 2005, 7:23PM

ROVE BEHAVIOR

Could it be Bush's Watergate?
Adviser shows his Nixonian roots

By THOMAS PAUKEN

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If special prosecutor Fitzgerald is going down this road, certain prominent figures could be indicted for obstruction of justice and/or for lying about classified national-security matters to Congress and the American people. Perhaps that is why leading neoconservative spokesman Bill Kristol said that Fitzgerald "is the problem for the White House; we have no idea what he knows ... "

The worst possible scenario for the administration would be if it turns out that the Niger documents in question (which all now agree were forged) were fabricated by individuals who may have had a motive for getting us into the war. Shadowy figures previously linked to the Iran-Contra scandal have been mentioned as possible originators of the forged documents.

If there is any truth to these charges, the lid will blow off Washington — and the Bush administration will be history.

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The usual sycophants are beating the drums in defense of Karl Rove, trying to make the case that conservatives have a stake in keeping Rove in power. But the party line may not save Rove's job this time. In his eagerness to hunt down a perceived enemy, Karl Rove stumbled into a national-security briar patch that may bring the entire neocon cabal down with him.

Pauken is a former Reagan official who served as a military-intelligence officer in Vietnam. He also was chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 1994 to 1997. This article first appeared in the September 2005 issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3318170


My, my - are we getting close to party time? :evilgrin: