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Rove Had Motive to Oust Attorneys

Fired attorneys ticked off Rove by being lax on voter fraud, says Dan Froomkin

By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff

Posted May 15, 2007 7:24 PM CDT

(Newser) – Karl Rove's role in the US attorney firings wouldn't be atypical for the power broker, writes the Post's Dan Froomkin. Bush's ballot-calculating mastermind has long been monomaniacal about prosecuting voter fraud, a move his critics decry as a tactic to "suppress poor and minority... Read full story »

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Rove Had Motive to Oust Attorneys

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