Karl Rove facing prosecutor's questions today over U.S. Attorneys firings scandal

Karl Rove dodged an indictment in the case about the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA status. Today, he's talking to prosecutors again. This one is about the scandal involving the firing of U.S. attorneys by Bush administration officials:

Karl Rove will be interviewed today as part of a criminal investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the presidency of George W. Bush, according to two sources familiar with the appointment.

Rove, a former senior aide to Bush, will be questioned by Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy, who was named in September to examine whether former Justice Department and White House officials lied or obstructed justice in connection with the dismissal of federal prosecutors in 2006.

Hopefully, Dannehy has talked to Patrick Fitzgerald about how to question the smarmiest of the Bush team. This was the guy, who along with Dick Cheney, led us into a war over lies.

This is another one of those scandals that the traditional media dismissed. Josh Marshall and his crew at Talking Point Memos put the pieces together and exposed it. For that, they won an award. Meanwhile, many in the traditional media mocked the story -- and just dismissed it:

Still, the image is great. While the mocking reporter, Time magazine’s Washington bureau chief Jay Carney, was busy dumping, via Times Swampland blog, on the story of U.S. Attorneys being fired across the country, Josh Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo, and two of his reporters at his offshoot site, TPMuckracker.com, Paul Kiel and Justin Rood, were busy reporting, using a variety of sources that had been largely untapped by the mainstream press.

To be fair, Carney wasn’t dismissing the story out of hand, but his snark hardly masked his belief that Marshall & Co. were out on a partisan limb, hyping a story that just wasn’t there.

Yeah. That's how it was. Karl Rove probably told the inside-the-beltway media types that it wasn't a real story. And, they dutifully believed him. Let's hope the prosecutor isn't so gullible today.

(And, that same Jay Carney now works for Joe Biden.)