I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.
(What with all the campaign frenzy, no one is going to mention this...so I will.)
Boy, that Karl Rove sure can do a lot of dirty business just using his phone and blackberry. Like "softening" the reports of the 9/11 Commission.
A Philip Shenon book coming out soon will reveal that Rove carried on back-room discussions with Philip Zelikow, the Commission's Executive Director, for a LONG time after the Commission told him to STOP speaking with White House Officials.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The September 11 commission's executive director had closer ties with the White House than publicly disclosed and tried to influence the final report in ways that the staff often perceived as limiting the Bush administration's responsibility, a new book says.
Philip Zelikow, a friend of then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, spoke with her several times during the 20-month investigation that closely examined her role in assessing the al-Qaida threat.
He also exchanged frequent calls with the White House, including at least four from Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser at the time.[..]"
You know, one of the topics of conversation might've been those terror tapes that George Tenet never told the 9/11 Commission about.
Or, how about the obvious? That the entire Bush team poo-pooed Bill Clinton’s advice that their first priority ought to be Al Qaeda...and as a result lost any chance they had to prevent it?
Lost a chance to prevent 9-11 or gained a chance for a new Pearl Harbor?
And ain't it funny that Zelikow was yakking it up with Rove on June 23, just when that whole Plame leak thang was brewing?
Nah...I highly doubt there is any connection between the two investigations. But I do think it's typical that Karl Rove was trying to obstruct two investigations at the same time.
Anyway...what will be the right-winger spin? Will they lead off with the usual ad hominem attacks, or will they use a Clinton deflection?
Let's sit back and wait ....
