Reply #40: DUer ProSense: NYT: E-Mail Shows Rove’s Role in Fate of Prosecutors

[L. Coyote]

ProSense Wed Mar-28-07 09:02 PM
NYT: E-Mail Shows Rove’s Role in Fate of Prosecutors
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Justice Department e-mail messages reveal Karl Rove’s role in selecting and dismissing federal prosecutors.

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and JIM RUTENBERG
Published: March 29, 2007 - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/washington/29rove.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, March 28 — Almost every Wednesday afternoon, advisers to President Bush gather to strategize about putting his stamp on the federal courts and the United States attorneys’ offices.

The group meets in the Roosevelt Room and includes the aides to the White House counsel, the chief of staff, the attorney general and Karl Rove, a top adviser to the president, who tries to attend himself. Each of them signs off on every nomination.

Mr. Rove takes charge of the politics......