Now -- this is how a prosecutor works
- From: "Joe S." <no_one@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:45:45 -0400
Senator Leahy is a former prosecutor who knows how to build a case -- and
you don't do it by going after the top guy first. Instead, you focus on the
little people -- the assistants, secretaries, assistants to assistants --
and you squeeze them. They point the finger higher and higher and you just
follow the pointing fingers.
Aide to Rove is stepping down and, no doubt, will be subpoenaed. One step
at a time.
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Multiple sources reported today that a top aide to President George W.
Bush's key adviser Karl Rove will soon step down from her job in the White
House. The aide, Sara M. Taylor, was identified in yesterday's hearing with
a former top Justice Department official as seeking the resignation of a US
Attorney in Arkansas. She could still face a subpoena, RAW STORY learned.
Last week, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees authorized subpoenas of
Scott Jennings, a deputy to Taylor, who is a top aide to Karl Rove. A House
Judiciary Committee aide told RAW STORY she could still face a subpoena
today.
"The people for whom subpoenas were authorized were a result of the document
review, and it could be could be that Jennings' name was more prevalent,"
said a House Judiciary Committee aide. "Other subpoenas can be authorized or
issued should any other names come up."
Taylor and Jennings were both fingered yesterday by Kyle Sampson, the former
chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, as playing key roles in
the elevation of Tim Griffin, a top staffer in the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign
and a Army Judge Advocate General, as the interim US Attorney for Arkansas
in place of Bud Cummins.
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) asked Sampson in yesterday's Senate Judiciary
Committee hearing why he believed the appointment of Griffin was important
to Rove.
"That e-mail was based on an assumption," Sampson answered. "I knew that
Sara Taylor and Scott Jennings had expressed interest in promoting Mr.
Griffin for appointment to be U.S. attorney, and I assumed, because they
reported to Karl Rove, that he was interested in that."
Both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire blog
reported today that Sara Taylor, the White House political director, is set
to resign soon.
"White House political director Sara M. Taylor, who has worked with Bush
since April 1999, when he was starting his first presidential run, told Rove
in December that she plans to leave in the spring, according to friends,"
wrote the Post's Peter Baker.
The Wall Street Journal's John D. McKinnon also stated that "persons
familiar with the situation" said Taylor would exit soon.
Taylor's name had earlier been raised as a potential subject for House and
Senate Judiciary Committee off the record interviews that White House
Counsel Fred Fielding said could be permitted.
"Bush said that Fielding, told lawmakers they could interview Rove, Miers,
deputy White House counsel William Kelley and J. Scott Jennings, a deputy to
political director Sara Taylor - who in turn works for Rove," wrote the AP's
Laurie Kellman on March 21.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Key_Rove_aide_fingered_in_Attorneygate_0330.html--
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