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He was looking at Rove, and Rove's (5.00 / 2) (#5)
by scribe on Tue May 06, 2008 at 01:58:26 PM EST

involvement (through intermediaries) in using the federal government to further political prospects of Republicans up for election.

Let's say Mr. Bloch wasn't exactly the most popular Bushie around the White House.

Kinda puts that whole Lurita Doan firing from about a week ago, in a whole different light, doesn't it?

: Yep, the Bushies were mad at him (none / 0) (#8)
by shoephone on Tue May 06, 2008 at 02:01:54 PM EST

for starting the April 2007 investigation into Rove's missing emails and the charges that the White House was politicizing appointments.
Veddy veddy interesting! There's more to this story than meets the eye.

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by squeaky on Tue May 06, 2008 at 03:31:07 PM EST

Mr. Bloch's critics quickly accused him of announcing an inquiry into the Rove-inspired briefings simply to draw attention away from his own shortcomings. At the time, he was the target of a complaint filed by a group of employees who accused him of trying to dismantle his own agency, of illegally barring employees from talking to journalists and of reducing a backlog of whistle-blower complaints by simply discarding old cases.
Mr. Bloch was nominated for his post by President Bush on June 26, 2003.
NYT
The DOJ and WH may also want to 'recover' some files.

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