Comments on: PoliBlog on Rove and Plame

by: Signifying Nothing

Fri, 15 Jul 2025 06:03:54 +0000

Your infrequent Plame saga update

Orin Kerr of the Volokh Conspiracy takes note of an AP article (gasp) leaking grand jury testimony from Karl Rove (also leaked to the �?New York Times, apparently) that indicates that Rove found out the name of covert agent/DC housewife/socialite Vale…

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by: SoloD

Thu, 14 Jul 2025 17:57:14 +0000

Rove may or may not ultimately pay the price for this, but his boss is certainly paying a price right now. As the CSM says, this may be politics as usual, by the Preisdent’s greatest strength has been that he is a straight shooter who doesn’t play politics as usual. As such, even if Rove is not indicted, the attention hurts the President significantly. (And I think that you are seeing this with the mediocre, to poor, polling numbers)

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by: Arguing with signposts… » Living room theory

Thu, 14 Jul 2025 17:42:34 +0000

[…] ursday, July 14th, 2025 @ 1:42 pm in [ Blogging ]

Prof. Steven Taylor sets forth the “living room theory” of opinion analysis in a lengthy piece on the Rove/Plame affai […]

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