Fugitive Karl Rove On The Lam In … Some Foreign Country
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Karl Rove ignored a subpeona and skipped a House Judiciary Committee hearing this morning because he had “prior commitments” or somesuch. Rumor has it the commitments involved corn cobs, a tank of nitrous, and one very lucky goat on a Sicilian hillside, which naturally took precedence over this little attorney-firing selective prosecution [so many Justice Deparment scandals to keep track of! -- Ed.] flap. [Think Progress, YouTube]
Karl Rove ignored a subpeona and skipped a House Judiciary Committee hearing this morning because he had “prior commitments” or somesuch. Rumor has it the commitments involved corn cobs, a tank of nitrous, and one very lucky goat on a Sicilian hillside, which naturally took precedence over this little attorney-firing selective prosecution [so many Justice Deparment scandals to keep track of! -- Ed.] flap. [Think Progress, YouTube]









It is apparently very, very lucrative to be one of two Attorney Generals to have presided over the biggest erosion of civil liberties in America since we put Japanese-Americans in internment camps! These days, former AG Ashcroft is a lawyer in a private consulting firm, but many of his minions from the good old days are still at Justice. And one of those minions, U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie in New Jersey, might’ve done John a little,
After a number of press conferences in which he was uncomfortably photographed underneath a statue of a naked woman, John Ashcroft ordered the offensive titties covered up during his tenure. One of Gonzo’s first acts in office was to restore the breasts to their former naked glory. Yesterday, at new Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s swearing-in ceremony, Ashcroft was reunited with his nemesis. This is what we imagine it probably looked like. [
Jack Goldsmith is some guy who used to work at the DOJ, and so, natch, he’s got a book coming out. It’s called something like “Why I’m a Good Conservative and Not an Evil One” or something like that. The New York Times published an excerpt today, and OMG, is it boring? This is supposed to be the juiciest stuff from the forthcoming remainder-bin mold-gatherer, and all we get is this:
So it’s White House vs. Congress vs. Justice, with the media sort of egging all the sides on, and this looks like Congress actually won, for once. Which surprises us as much as it surprises you.
Despite denials from the Department of Justice, ABC News is standing by