"According to McNulty’s account, Rove came late to the meeting and left early.
But while he was there he spoke up and echoed a point that was made by the other
White House aides: The Justice Department needed to provide specific reasons why
it terminated the eight prosecutors in order to rebut Democratic charges that
the firings were politically motivated. The point Rove and other White House
officials made is “you all need to explain what you did and why you did it,”
McNulty told the investigators."
The problem with all these scandals in Washington now is that everyone is so focused on winning partisan points, and defending their positions that truth is being quartered. You know what quartering is, that is when a person is tied hands and feet to four horses, one arm - one horse, one leg - one horse. Then the horses are whipped, tearing the person in four parts. That is what is happening to the truth in Washington.
The first thing I think of is what is Rove doing at this meeting. The second is that every scandal during the Bush administration has been an attack on Bush. I am not saying that the scandals don't have merit. With a new scandal developing it does make sense to have someone from the White House trying to get ahead of it, knowing that the attack will end up pointed at the president.
I have not followed this closely, in the end I think most of these scandals are a mixture of political motivations and first rate blunders.
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