I’m with Salon, All Roads Do Lead to Rove

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Ok, so Jonathan and I are both on Rove’s case today. See below for more haranguing.

Yesterday, Dan reported on the irony of a man like Scott Bloch, the head of the Office of Special Counsel investigating Karl Rove for his recently revealed dirty dealings. Bloch himself is under investigation by the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general, spurred on, in part, by his staff who claimed “he engaged in the very retaliatory practices his agency is charged with investigating.” We’re wondering, “courageous effort to expose White House malfeasance, or a last ditch attempt to save his own hide”?

Bloch and the OSC plan to investigate Rove’s involvement in, among other things, that politicized power-point presentation given to political appointees at the General Services Administration (GSA) by a Rove deputy, which, once again, is front page news. Yes, Bloch’s job just got even more involved. As Jonathan notes in his post about the Hatch Act below, there wasn’t just one power-point presentation, but 20 given to 15 different agencies and all — you guessed it — by Rove deputies. I know, it’s overwhelming and a little tough to keep track of the various transgressions these days by WH and government officials, but it might be more simple than it appears. I think Salon had some great foresight when they titled this piece: “All Roads Lead to Rove.”

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