Departures won’t change Bush agenda
Christian Science Monitor
08/29/07
By the time both Alberto Gonzales and Karl Rove announced their resignations from the Bush administration this month, both seemed to have the term ‘lightning rod’ permanently affixed to their names. Both of them, close friends and aides to President Bush going back to his Texas days, had become media poster boys for the controversial tactics and goals of the Bush presidency: Mr. Gonzales, as White House counsel and then attorney general, was a facilitator for Mr. Bush’s bold efforts to expand the reach of the executive branch and then embroiled himself in a political scandal over fired US attorneys that left senators of both parties questioning his honesty and competence. Mr. Rove, the architect of Bush’s two presidential victories and his closest adviser in the White House, inflamed his opponents’ passions over his hardball political tactics...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0829/p03s03-uspo.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Linda+Feldmann
08/29/07
By the time both Alberto Gonzales and Karl Rove announced their resignations from the Bush administration this month, both seemed to have the term ‘lightning rod’ permanently affixed to their names. Both of them, close friends and aides to President Bush going back to his Texas days, had become media poster boys for the controversial tactics and goals of the Bush presidency: Mr. Gonzales, as White House counsel and then attorney general, was a facilitator for Mr. Bush’s bold efforts to expand the reach of the executive branch and then embroiled himself in a political scandal over fired US attorneys that left senators of both parties questioning his honesty and competence. Mr. Rove, the architect of Bush’s two presidential victories and his closest adviser in the White House, inflamed his opponents’ passions over his hardball political tactics...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0829/p03s03-uspo.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Linda+Feldmann
rudkla - 29. Aug, 11:43
