The blogs are buzzing today about a major revelation from the LA Times. Karl Rove's political operation is facing what appears to be a serious internal investigation:
Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited political activities.The Washington DC-based media pays enormous deference to Karl Rove. Still. Despite all the lies. Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart interviewed Matt Cooper on this very subject. The video is on the Daily Show's website. Fascinating what the press has let Rove get away with. Karl plays the media for patsies -- and they are. It'll be interesting to see if this latest investigation gets any traction beyond the LA Times and the blogosphere.
But the Office of Special Counsel is preparing to jump into one of the most sensitive and potentially explosive issues in Washington, launching a broad investigation into key elements of the White House political operations that for more than six years have been headed by chief strategist Karl Rove.
The new investigation, which will examine the firing of at least one U.S. attorney, missing White House e-mails, and White House efforts to keep presidential appointees attuned to Republican political priorities, could create a substantial new problem for the Bush White House.
First, the inquiry comes from inside the administration, not from Democrats in Congress. Second, unlike the splintered inquiries being pressed on Capitol Hill, it is expected to be a unified investigation covering many facets of the political operation in which Rove played a leading part.
"We will take the evidence where it leads us," Scott J. Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel and a presidential appointee, said in an interview Monday. "We will not leave any stone unturned."
