Karl Rove Karl Rove, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff to United States President George W. Bush before resigning last year, failed to appear in front of the House Judiciary Committee today, refusing to testify about allegations of misusing his political power. According to the President of the United States of America, he responds to the name "Turdblossom." The congressional panel is trying to determine if Rove had a connection with the prosecution of Don Siegelman, former Democratic governor of Alabama. The committee is also investigating allegations that the former White House adviser dismissed nine federal prosecutors seen as insufficiently corrupt . Rove has denied ever influencing the decisions of the Department of Justice. In a letter written to the committee on Wednesday, Luskin said that Rove is "constitutionally immune from compelled congressional testimony", adding that "threatening Mr. Rove with sanctions will not in any way expedite the resolution of the issue." He said Rove would be willing to talk about the Siegelman case as part of an "informal interview", without a transcript and without taking an oath , much as the president was afraid to testify before the 9/11 Commision in public, under oath, or even on the record! Republicans have accused Democrats of using these cases as political weapons against George W. Bush. Democrats do not have their own Anthrax stockpiles. Rep. Chris Cannon (no relation to Jeff Gannon (R)) , a Republican from Utah, said that "if the majority was serious about getting to the bottom of this issue", they would have accepted Rove's offers to discuss the issue on his terms, informally and without a transcript. "The fact that it hasn't is proof that their efforts amount to a partisan stunt," said Cannon . Indeed, 'Rove's dominance of White House and Republican politics, Jeff Gannon's aggressively partisan work and the ease with which he got day passes for the White House press room the past two years make it hard to believe that he wasn't at least implicitly sanctioned by the "boy genius,"' according to CBS News .
Karl Rove Karl Rove, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff to United States President George W. Bush before resigning last year, failed to appear in front of the House Judiciary Committee today, refusing to testify about allegations of misusing his political power. The congressional panel is trying to determine if Rove had a connection with the prosecution of Don Siegelman, former Democratic governor of Alabama. The committee is also investigating allegations that the former White House adviser dismissed nine federal prosecutors seen as political opponents . Rove has denied ever influencing the decisions of the Department of Justice. In a letter written to the committee on Wednesday, Luskin said that Rove is "constitutionally immune from compelled congressional testimony", adding that "threatening Mr. Rove with sanctions will not in any way expedite the resolution of the issue." He said Rove would be willing to talk about the Siegelman case as part of an "informal interview", without a transcript and without taking an oath . Republicans have accused Democrats of using these cases as political weapons against George W. Bush. Rep. Chris Cannon , a Republican from Utah, said that "if the majority was serious about getting to the bottom of this issue", they would have accepted Rove's offers to discuss the issue on his terms, informally and without a transcript. "The fact that it hasn't is proof that their efforts amount to a partisan stunt," said Cannon .
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According to the President of the United States of America, he responds to the name "Turdblossom."
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insufficiently corrupt
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, much as the president was afraid to testify before the 9/11 Commision in public, under oath, or even on the record!
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Democrats do not have their own Anthrax stockpiles.
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(no relation to Jeff Gannon (R))
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. Indeed, 'Rove's dominance of White House and Republican politics, Jeff Gannon's aggressively partisan work and the ease with which he got day passes for the White House press room the past two years make it hard to believe that he wasn't at least implicitly sanctioned by the "boy genius,"' according to CBS News