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White House
Hid Rove's Role
in US Attorney
Hiring

Leaked emails show cover-up of meddling

May 11, 07 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove finagled a U.S. attorney post for his protégé Timothy Griffin, and the White House concealed his role in the appointment, the National Journal concludes from previously unrelease e-mails leaked to them. Griffin replaced fired attorney Bud Cummins; a Justice Department letter (later retracted) assured Congress Rove... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • US attorney • Karl Rove • White House • Timothy Griffin • Patriot Act • scandal

Awkward! Bush Muffs Dates in Front of Queen

Then launches into "boilerplate" speech

May 8, 07 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - British protocol hounds were on high alert for lapses as President Bush hosted their regent yesterday, and he did not disappoint. At a photo op with Queen Elizabeth II, he mangled the date of a previous visit. "You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17—1976," he... More »

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War on Terror • terrorism • United Kingdom • White House • Queen Elizabeth II • George HW Bush • George W. Bush

Gonzales Aide Probed for Political Hiring

Goodling accused of screening prosecutors for party affiliation

May 3, 07 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department is investigating whether Monoica Goodling, the former aide to Alberto Gonzales recently given immunitiy to testify before Congress, illegally used party loyalty as a criteria in hiring federal prosecutors. Goodling's position involved reviewing applications for prosecutors; it's a violation of federal law to consider political affiliation in... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • investigation • law • Monica Goodling • Attorney General • Senate Judiciary Committee • White House • trial • scandal

The Decider With the 'Yee Haw' Aesthetic

Blumenthal connects the dots from cowboy
art to Abu Ghraib

Apr 26, 07 10:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - You can learn a lot from the art in someone's office, says Sidney Blumenthal, even the oval one. George Bush's prized painting of cowboys riding into the unseen helps explain his "stay the course" mentality, while a painting of the Alamo feeds W's evangelically inflected insistence on a "... More »

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torture • White House • art • painting • decorations • George W. Bush

Rove to Sheryl Crow: "Don't Touch Me!"

Bush mastermind strikes sour note with singer/activist

Apr 23, 07 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - "Dismissive, condescending, and quite frankly a bully," is the verdict on Karl Rove from environmental activist Laurie David and singer Sheryl Crow. In their Huffington Post account of the White House Correspondents Dinner, they say Crow tapped Rove's shoulder when he turned from a conversation about global warming,... More »

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music • Karl Rove • global warming • White House • correspondent • Sheryl Crow

House Subpoenas Gonzo

Stakes raised in purge- gate as White House resists disclosure

Apr 11, 07 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales got served yesterday, as House Dems issued their first subpoena in the attorney-firing scandal. They want the AG to turn over hundreds of pages of new or uncensored documents, including a complete version of the March 2005 chart Gonzales and chief-of-staff Kyle Sampson used to evaluate all 93... More »

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Congress • Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • politics • Kyle Sampson • White House • scandal

Third Gonzales
Aide Resigns

Monica Goodling resigns after
declining to testify on dismissals
of U.S. attorneys

Apr 7, 07 7:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gonzales aide Monica Goodling resigned yesterday, a little more than a week after she plead the fifth rather than testify before a Senate committee about the Justice Department's firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the Times reports. Democrats had hoped Goodling, who was Justice's liaison to  the White House, would... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • Karl Rove • Democrats • Monica Goodling • White House

Gonzales Gets Little Help In Fight for Job

AG preps for Senate testimony without White House, Justice Dept. aid

Apr 5, 07 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales is prepping for his April 17 Senate testimony as strenuously as if it were a confirmation proceeding, the Washington Post reports, since his job clearly depends upon it. And he's going it alone: Thanks to possible obstruction of justice charges, DOJ lawyers won't let the attorney general coordinate... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • Republican • Senate hearings • Senate • White House • Arlen Specter • Ed Gillespie • Timothy Flanigan

Karl Rove Finds His
Inner Eminem

Bush's main man busts a few moves at the White House correspondents' dinner

Mar 29, 07 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - White House codger-in-residence Karl Rove debuted his hip-hop alter ego, "MC Rove," at last night's correspondents dinner, the Politico reports. Bush's embattled adviser shouted "I'm MC Rove" at comedian-appointed intervals, pretending gamely to have a sense of humor (and any idea how to win the black vote)... More »

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Karl Rove • NBC • White House • correspondent • Eminem • George W. Bush

Tony Snow's Cancer Recurs

Mar 28, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - White House press secretary Tony Snow has cancer again, and this time it's spread to his liver. Doctors discovered the recurrence when they removed a  growth from his lower abdomen yesterday. Snow, who's 51, underwent surgery and chemotherapy for colon cancer two years ago. More »

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cancer • Bush administration • health • Tony Snow • White House • press • Fox

House Vote: Make Rove Testify

Senate expected to approve subpoenas today in prosecutor firing flap

Mar 22, 07 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - A House panel authorized subpoenas yesterday and the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to do so today in an effort to force Karl Rove and other top administration figures to testify about the firings of federal prosecutors. With the White House offering only private interviews, not under oath, the scene... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Karl Rove • Tony Snow • Senate Judiciary Committee • White House • House of Representatives • Clinton administration • George W. Bush

Kerry-Smearers Eyeing McCain

McCain calls them the "most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter"

Mar 14, 07 8:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - The veterans who helped sink John Kerry's Swift Boat to the White House is prepping for battle with John McCain. "Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry" founders Jerry Kiley and Ted Sampley have dusted off their 527 forms and created "Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain," to combat the... More »

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John McCain • presidency • John Kerry • presidential campaign • POW • White House • Jerry Kiley • Ted Sampley • Election 2008 • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

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