Not a problem, just use Bush's favorite tactic, Extraordinary Rendition.

I have just thought of the perfect use for Blackwater troops. Hunting down Karl Rove and Halliburton executives to be brought back and tried in court.

and we might as well grab that pedophile Roman Polanski while we're at it.

and if they happen to just come back in multiple pieces.. oh well.

Why do the Republican ass lickers continue to cover for these criminals. Is it not obvious to everyone they are liars. Why not clear the air and not cover for them. I sit in awe at their complicity with these law breakers.

There is not a single Main Stream News organization with the balls to cover this story. The story is alive only on Liberal and Progressive Blogs and publications.

I think Karl Rove sent them an E-mail that he was leaving the country? But if you haven't heard they are still having problems with E-mail.

Maybe ball-less miss nancy could practice a little extraordinary rendition of it's own. Nobody in this country has to follow any laws,right miss nancy, so why don't you do some lawbreaking yourself? Just pick up Karl and disappear him until the next hearing. And may-be pick up harriet and josh for good measure.

what did you expect?

well, let him leave and bush and cheney and cundi when this
administration is over. just makes it easier for them to be
relocated to the haigh for their war crimes by extraordinary
rendition, which by the way they deserve.

should have taken rove's fucking passport away along time ago.

I personally can't wait for the War Crimes Tribunals when the current douchebags leave the country for one of their little vacations.

Wonder if he's "visiting " a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty. That would be telling.

Anywhooo, Conyers I'm sure will send another nasty letter. Those feisty dems!! No one pushes them around.

Who is Mr. Cannon?

Karma is finally catching up with "the architect".

Pull up a chair, Mr. Rove, we have a few questions for you
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_9855680

By Dana Milbank
The Washington Post
Article Last Updated: 07/11/2008 07:41:56 PM MDT

WASHINGTON - Karl Rove had never been so agreeable.
The former chief strategist to President Bush was the only witness listed on the agenda for Thursday's meeting of the House Judiciary Committee, and he proved to be uncharacteristically contained.
Rep. Linda Sanchez, chairman of the subcommittee holding the hearing, declared herself ''extremely disappointed and deeply concerned'' about Rove's behavior.
Rove was silent.
Sanchez spoke of his ''role in the alleged politicization of the Justice Department'' and his hand in ''the unprecedented firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006.''
Rove offered no defense.
''If such allegations were true,'' said Rep. Chris Cannon, Utah, the ranking Republican on the panel, ''they would be very serious.''
Rove did not dispute this.
There was good reason for The Architect's quiet: He was out of the country. He had no intention of appearing before Congress, and he had sent the panel the equivalent of a doctor's note - from no less a medical authority than White House counsel Fred Fielding - saying he did not have to respond to the congressional subpoena.
...

Three little words:

Cut
and
Run

Why is Mr. Cannon being allowed to interrogate the committee and not the other way around. What's going on here? Shouldn't he be under oath?

MountainMan23 @ 26:

@19 Jo
Who is Mr. Cannon?

Rep. Chris Cannon, Utah, the ranking Republican on the panel

Ah

Can we put him on a terrorist watch list?

Whats even more pathetic is the Democatic leadership does not even have the strategic skill to bring attention to these republicans crimes against the nation and the constitution.

I've lost all hope for any opposition to the Republican Crime Syndicate in America.

You don't say. "The Architect" flees the country. No how can this be?

And now a Preview of a Post-Bushes Brain World

As the weather gets hotter, the nation starts to sweat, even as the consequences of Bushonomics have become more telling. Last week, for example, there were news reports of Christian prayer groups, praying for lower gas prices at gas stations. Hookers are hooking for gas cards, offering defined services for $25 or $50 gas cards. A nationwide gasoline retailer has been reported offering $5 off coupons on Zoloft, if you buy 10 gallons of gas, a new form of cross marketing under Bushonomics. There has also been a push in Congress by the Big Pharmaceutical companies to turn a variety of prescription anti-depressant drugs into over the counter drugs because demand for them has soared so much. The pharmaceutical industry is right because it would bring the price down. It should be remembered that this regime has purposely kept prices of antidepressants cheap anyway. Of course, Bushonian Regimes understand the consequences of Bushonomics to the Joe Six Packers, and they try to make it easier on them, albeit in small ways.

Leave the man alone! He's busy setting up Bush's new Ant Farm in Paraguay...

The same Cheney's going to do after January 2009 to escape trail for his lies and war crimes and to once again thumb is nose at the law and America justice. Except he'll probably flee to Halliburton's new headquarters in Dubai http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/business/12halliburtoncnd.html?_r=1&ex...

Better arrest him soon!

If anything is going to happen to the Bush mafiosi it will not be at the behest this toothless Congress.

Inherent contempt indeed.

My contempt for them is growing daily, inherently.

The only hope is some law observing foreign land gives Rove a Pinochet moment.

He went to Sweden to give a talk.

Logan: takes some nuts to write that headline. I doubt the absence of malice defense will work.

Bush knew.

I hope this means that someone found the 3 million "missing" @rnc.org and @whitehouse.gov emails.

What a coward. Just as I would suspect from the Bush and Chaney clan.

Why does Karl Rove hate America?

And he should have been arrested for this. Rove don't do comedy... intentionally.

Damn shame the subpoenas are not flying like during the Clinton administration.

There were thousands and they testified everyday.

The only conclusion is the dems are covering up their crimes like with Iran contra and Nixon.

This LA Times article:

Ex-Bush press secretary Tony Snow dies of cancer at 53
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/ex-bush-press-s.html

contains this sentence:

Karl Rove, Bush's counselor and chief political strategist, was traveling in the Crimea this morning but described himself as devastated at the news.

in case it's not been answered:

... Rep. Chris Cannon, Utah, the ranking Republican on the panel ...

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_9855680

Do you suppose they'll write another stern letter?

My friends, don't despair. By November, people will be dirt poor because of Bush's economic policies, and will be forced to vote Democratic, Oh wait, it is time to despair!

You'd think FISA would have caused Rove's fears about the Dems growing a spine to disappear.

@ 60 Marge -

"PS HEY why don’t we get the International committe grab him while he is out of the country and try him for war crimes……..he wouldn’t be under US protection then."

My thought exactly .. wouldn't it be wonderful if ..

Obstruction of Justice was a sufficient crime to warrant impeachment.

if the WH told Rove to ignore the house subpoena, that is obstruction.

not that I'm holding my breath.

I have daydreams about citizen's arrests.

Of course, it would just get the arrester shot.

MountainMan23 @ 57:

This LA Times article:

Ex-Bush press secretary Tony Snow dies of cancer at 53
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/ex-bush-press-s.html

contains this sentence:

Karl Rove, Bush's counselor and chief political strategist, was traveling in the Crimea this morning but described himself as devastated at the news.

Yes, but he first went to Sweden. Here's an interview: linky

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Q U E S T I O N:

Why has Rove been allowed to go on the public air waves and spew 'his" facts via FOXPRAVDA about Siegelman and Plame yet is allowed to refuse going before any Congressional Committee?

If Rove can refuse to testify because of Executive privilege, shouldn't that extend to discourse in very, VERY public channels like FOXPRAVDA?

.

Hopefully rove mistakenly traveled to a country where they actually flush turds down the toilet.

MountainMan23 @ 66:

@ 60 Marge -

"PS HEY why don’t we get the International committe grab him while he is out of the country and try him for war crimes……..he wouldn’t be under US protection then."

My thought exactly .. wouldn't it be wonderful if ..

We need to clean up our own mess. The citizenry in this country needs to take responsibility and get the respect of the world back by handling this issue at home. Enough of hoping the world community will take care of our matters for us.

look all the cute comments are entertaining, but the truth is we need to put our efforts towards finding Rove, exposing him, and getting him tired for war crimes. There is a much better chance of him paying for his crimes if he is arrested overseas. And, if he is arrested, then he can be held for contempt of Congress, then brought back in shackles.

C'mon people- clever comments are worthless- they will not bring the war criminals to trial. Let's do that first, then we can make cute bon mots..

Karl in the Crimea — Rove, not Marx

Karl Rove is roving the beaches of the Crimea, not the committee rooms of Congress.
[...]
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/karl-in-the-crimea-rove-not-marx/

but why?

he sure doesn't seem like the beach type... pasty slug...

Turdblossom....caught roving.

Dave Lindorff: The Bush Family's Bad Latin Real Estate Investment

"Last month, a former Roman Catholic Bishop with leftist, populist tendencies, Fernando Lugo, surprised almost everyone in Paraguay, and no doubt President Bush, by winning the national presidential election, ousting the Colorado Party for the first time in 61 years. There is talk that among other things, Lugo is thinking of returning Paraguay to the community of nations, by signing some of those extradition agreements."

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/lindorff/094

Oh please, oh please, oh please!!

Ruthless People @ 86:

Orangutan. @ 78:

MountainMan23 @ 66:

@ 60 Marge -

"PS HEY why don’t we get the International committe grab him while he is out of the country and try him for war crimes……..he wouldn’t be under US protection then."

My thought exactly .. wouldn't it be wonderful if ..

We need to clean up our own mess. The citizenry in this country needs to take responsibility and get the respect of the world back by handling this issue at home. Enough of hoping the world community will take care of our matters for us.

Whose going to do that, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats? At this point I will take whatever help we can get. Any country that nabs Roves and brings him to justice for his role in the war crimes and war profiteering of the Bush Regime will forever have my gratitude and probably the gratitude of the majority of Americans.

I agree. It is just preferential to not have to be bailed out by some other country. But your right.. I'll take it if that is the only way to bring these assholes to justice.

Lugo Lugo he's our man. If the Dems won't do it Lugo can.

Orangutan. @ 88:

Ruthless People @ 86:

Orangutan. @ 78:

MountainMan23 @ 66:

We need to clean up our own mess. The citizenry in this country needs to take responsibility and get the respect of the world back by handling this issue at home. Enough of hoping the world community will take care of our matters for us.

Whose going to do that, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats? At this point I will take whatever help we can get. Any country that nabs Roves and brings him to justice for his role in the war crimes and war profiteering of the Bush Regime will forever have my gratitude and probably the gratitude of the majority of Americans.

I agree. It is just preferential to not have to be bailed out by some other country. But your right.. I'll take it if that is the only way to bring these assholes to justice.

Imagine the ratings bonaza for the network that covered Rove's trail if he were captured and brought to justice abroad. It would be bigger that O J Simpson. Of course FOXaganda, ABC (Foxaganda Lite) and the majority of cable news wouldn't cover the trial. I wouldn't miss a day of it though, I would have my popcorn and soda and my chair in front of the TV tuned in every night!

Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 74:

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Q U E S T I O N:

Why has Rove been allowed to go on the public air waves and spew 'his" facts via FOXPRAVDA about Siegelman and Plame yet is allowed to refuse going before any Congressional Committee?

If Rove can refuse to testify because of Executive privilege, shouldn't that extend to discourse in very, VERY public channels like FOXPRAVDA?

.

He did not actually claim Exec Priv.

But your question is one of reasons why Exec Priv was rejected (anyway) by the Committee.

Cause he's a bully and a coward. His day of justice has to come.

Running and hiding like the cowardly little weasel he is...like all bullies, right wingers, Bush cabal member and Bush enablers are.

I hope that fat little weasel dies a miserable death in some god forsaken third world country while trying to avoid extradition.

this is all worthless unless the democrats follow through and hold him in contempt and do all they can. otherwise, they're getting laughed at and they deserve to.

Shocking. Absolutely shocking. Couldn't the committee have met in closed session? How could they have allowed cameras? If enough people see this the House might have no choice but to actually do something. Where was Pelosi when this was going on?

Our own government is complicit in the Bush Cabal's multiple crimes, this of course includes the likes of Nancy "Impeachment is OFF the table" Pelosi, Reid, etc. The MSM is now pretty much run by both the government and corporate interests and will only "report" what those two parties TELL them to say for the most part. Letters sent to our elected officials are IGNORED. It's also a simply sad fact that the American People will never again take up arms as long as they can get their fixes of American Idol and the latest sale items at Walmart.

Countdown got it right on Friday. The only way that Americans who still love both this country and the rule of law and the US Constitution can do is to start a petition drive via the web that can be delivered to the ICC (International Criminal Court) with hopes that the INTERNATIONAL community will hold our elected officials up to the letter of the law on torture, rendition, preemptive wars, etc. and have them put to trial at the Hague.

Interestingly enough Bush seems to have been thinking ahead for once back in I believe 2002, when it was signed into law that if the ICC were to arrest any American that the Bush White House objected to they can then use military force, REGARDLESS of what country say Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. were arrested in to get them back so as to IGNORE international law. Wow, I bet nazis after WWII had wished they had had a law like that after the Nuremburg trials began.

Long story short, is there someone out there on any of these progressive websites with the cahones to actually DO SOMETHING instead of just bloggers griping and START A PETITION DRIVE TO THE ICC ASKING THEM TO BRING FORTH THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ON WAR CRIMES??

You silly "liberals", who think Dems are going to save you. This is a prime example. You, me, I, would never be able to get away with this. If you can't get a POS like Rove to a hearing...what the eff do you think they are really getting away with???

In my mind I can hear Tommy Lee as Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard growling,"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in the world. Checkpoints go up at 24,000 miles. Your fugitive's name is Karl 'Turdblossom' Rove. Go get him!"

This Fugitive is guilty, so I know it will never happen, but can dream, can't I?

emptywheel (http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/10/bush-did-not-invoke-executi...) has the best analysis on this episode.

as i was reading the emptywheel post, i was working the framing off a particular sentence to get to the essence (EW sentence: "Rove's official duties included witch hunts against Democrats"; translation: " ...included contact with the justice department regarding ongoing prosecutions"), which took me a couple shots -- one to realize that there was framing, then a second to work it out -- but which slowed me down to think, well, just what WERE rove's job duties. i never paid attention to his title or duties because, frankly, does it matter what you call him? unless you're calling him to answer for his crimes? actually, i hadn't paid attention because i knew he was a political advisor but i clearly made a wildly inaccurate assumption that his duties did NOT include setting policy. just what the fuck does bush do all day?

anyway, i looked at what was in wikipedia, got nothing there, then googled "karl rove job responsibilities senior advisor to the president" and got some interesting results, the first of which is the transcript of the press gaggle on 4/19/06 where, among other things, scott mcclellan explains rove's job responsibilities, and talks about his own resignation. i'm giving you here the pertinent clip and a link to the page (it's from a "sun times" blog):

Q Can you clarify what Karl Rove's role will be?

MR. McCLELLAN: Karl will continue to be Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President. What this will do is it will allow him to focus more on the larger strategic planning, and Joel will focus on the day-to-day management of the policy process. And so this really frees Karl up to focus on bigger strategic issues. He will continue to be a crucial voice and trusted advisor on policy -- Karl will, that is -- as he has been since the beginning of this administration.

Q So he will have less a policy role than he had before?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, Joel will do the day-to-day management of the policy process and work closely with all those councils. Karl's voice will continue to be a crucial one in the policy process as it has been all along. But like I said, this is a critical and challenging time that we are in, and this really frees Karl up to focus on larger strategic issues.

Q Can you talk a little bit more about how your resignation came about today? Was this something that you wanted to do, or did you feel pressured?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I started thinking about this over -- more seriously over the last few weeks. And with the new Chief of Staff coming on board, it was a good time to make this decision. Three years would have been an awfully long time in this position. I've been at this for a long time. I didn't need much encouragement to make this decision, even though you all kept tempting me.

Q Is it bittersweet? Is your announcement --

MR. McCLELLAN: No, not at all. The President and I had a very good discussion about this earlier this week, and I'm looking forward to a new chapter in my life. I've been very honored to be a part of this team, and to serve the President.

Q What are your plans now?

MR. McCLELLAN: I'm just beginning to think about it. When you're in this position, you don't have time to really think about what's next. This is a position where you really have to focus on the here and now. I'll be thinking about that, but I also am going to remain fully focused on the job for the remainder of the time that I am here at the White House. I expect to be here for another two to three weeks; the process of -- I want to be helpful in the process of finding a new press secretary.

Q How is that process going? Is there a short list? Do you expect it to be fast?

MR. McCLELLAN: I'm not going to get into speculating about it. But I'll certainly be helpful in the transition and helpful in identifying someone who will serve the President well.

end of clip from
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/04/mcclellan_he_tries_to_explain.html

this next clip is from a washington post story dated 2/9/05, fourteen months earlier:

During President Bush's first term, outsiders often suspected that Karl Rove was really behind virtually everything. Now it's official. Rove, the political mastermind behind two presidential elections, yesterday was named White House deputy chief of staff in charge of coordinating domestic policy, economic policy, national security and homeland security
For a man who spent a lifetime in the business of polls and campaign strategy, it is an expansive portfolio cutting across virtually the entire policy spectrum. But many in the White House said the new position largely formalizes what was already true, noting that Rove has quietly played a vital role in shaping domestic policy from the inception of the Bush presidency. Now, for the first time, he will have a formal hand in foreign policy as well.

The shifting responsibilities reflected a broader retrofit of the White House that Bush largely completed yesterday as he retooled his staff to focus on his ambitious second-term agenda of restructuring Social Security, rewriting the tax code and spreading democracy around the world. With no more elections in his future, Bush moved his key strategist into a new more simplified chain of command focused on legislative markups rather than electoral college math, while also shuffling other top jobs in the West Wing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9308-2005Feb8.html

the last thing i've had the stomach to open and look at, briefly, is a roundable with the press that rove did on air force one in august of 2007 after he had announced he was leaving the white house where he reminds us that bush is "going to use every lever he's got command over, every power that he controls to continue to drive the policy debate right up to noon on January 20, 2009."

i think he meant "drive the policy debate right off the edge of the cliff."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_August_13/ai_n273418...

i find it useful to review contemporaneous records when things pop up in order to properly judge current framing and/or spin on a subject. it was definitely a worthwhile exercise in this case.

I would say that Rove has a hold of the congress by their balls, except that they have no balls.

SweetAtheist @ 112:

Q U E S T I O N:

Why has Rove been allowed to go on the public air waves and spew ‘his” facts via FOXPRAVDA about Siegelman and Plame yet is allowed to refuse going before any Congressional Committee?

If Rove can refuse to testify because of Executive privilege, shouldn’t that extend to discourse in very, VERY public channels like FOXPRAVDA?

.

He did not actually claim Exec Priv.

But your question is one of reasons why Exec Priv was rejected (anyway) by the Committee

________________________

The hell he didn't claim Executive Privlege

From Huffpo:

Update: As expected, Rove defied the House subpoena and failed to show up for his scheduled testimony. Rep. Linda Sanchez ruled that his claim of executive privilege was invalid, setting the table for a possible contempt vote next week. Stay tuned.

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that you'd read it on the internet. Must be true. You see, all I did was read the letter that his lawyer sent to the committee and saw that it never mentioned Exec Priv. What an idiot I am for going to the hassle of checking the actual source when I could have use the web.

Doh!

In Slow Motion Rove Ignores Congress's Call To Do Nothing

The Congress knew it, the media knew it, and every person following this arrogant disregard for legal proceedings knew it. Rove is playing that "its all a matter of opinion" thing into the ground. Even though a judge made clear differences between third party debate and illegal actions,this Rovian strategy is still being run by its creator. Enter Carl Gannon, a Republican congressman who has lost all sense of objectivity, to aid in this tragedy to our legal system.

When Bush leaves office, if he leaves office, we have so much restoration in front of those entrusted in bringing this once respected country in line. In short, "Dedis we got some work to do." This president has fucked everything up so badly we will have to spend the first four years reseting our laws so they are once again respected. How much damage has been done? There is what we read about, yet I am afraid of what we never got a chance to read about. I call it the "Blackwater reality" because this president owns secrecy. Blackwater will be at the head of those agencies carrying out the dirty work for this administration.

Which brings me back to Rove. Do you recall the wooden pallets of US currency that became unaccounted for in the Iraqi theater of war. I bet Rove knows where that money went. We are talking about 9 billion dollars that up and, for all we know, came up unaccounted for. How sweet it has been for the Oil men and his minions. What one of those billions could buy.

We need a plan, a special plan with special promotions, to solely address, one by one, everything suspected to a contributer to the ill affects of this administration. That is the only way this congress can address, assess, and detox from this, the worse president we have ever had in this country.

Joseph

Democrats should be saying: "So what if Rove had a trip scheduled, he doesn't work for the government anymore so he is obliged to follow our schedule so his trip cannot be of national urgence. He received a subpoena and doesn't have the liberty to not respond to a subpoena because of a vacation (whether preplanned or not). Even if he told us he had a trip planned, unless we agreed to change the testimony date, he is still obliged to show up on the testimony date."

galaga @ 120:

Double of nothin..Rove's in the Caymans drinking mai tais with Ken Lay.

wait for the feet to float down on the current off Canada or Maine

Where and O where has that rovin' Karl Rove gone?

Something I've noticed since this whole thing about Karl Rove leaving the country thing started is that nobody seems to be asking the very basic question:

when does he plan to return?

You'd think any committee dedicated to obtaining sworn testimony from Mr. Rove would have posed this simple question by now. Nobody seems to be mentioning it though. Aren't they interested in knowing the answer, or is it that they already know?

Is the fix already in?

mrbadmood @ 125:

when does he plan to return?

you make the assumption that he has really left the country voluntary, or is still alive not minced and eaten by pigs.
Too many people dont want a live Rove talking at any cost, his testimony in return for immunity could sink a rather big Rotten hulk.

katy @ 83:

Karl in the Crimea — Rove, not Marx

Karl Rove is roving the beaches of the Crimea, not the committee rooms of Congress.
[...]
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/karl-in-the-crimea-rove-not-marx/

but why?

he sure doesn't seem like the beach type... pasty slug...

Lumpy Rash (he of the cigar and little blue pills) didnt seem to be the type to hang around school playgrounds in the Dominican Republic,

...wait yes he was the type.

Rove is prob cruising for some teen surf boys

This is the one good reason the FISA bill was passed -- to catch Karl Rove.

The new Elvis perhaps?

Arrest the coward when he gets off the plane! Why is his 19 year old son not serving in Iraq?

ladies & gents THIS IS WHY THEY KILLED JFK BECAUSE HE KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEND IF WE DID NOT FIGHT BACK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces&feature=related
PLEASE EVERYBODY JUST SIT BACK AND LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!

Send the bounty hunters after this stray.

Every last one of them is a flight risk. Cheney's going to Dubai. Bet on it.

Will sobody please ask Mr. Rowes dame lawyer where the hell he went, for Gods sake, what is wrong with these people.

I think this is a dame cheap lie, to keep these people for doing what they are required to do.

Nancy has already put the message out that they were not going to press the issue with Rowe. They intend to let the fat bastard off the hook, just like they are allowing Bush and anyone else he deems important to his disgusting administration get away with anything they please.

If Mr. Rowe was a black man, dammit, he would have been hung by now.

So what if the trip was "long prepared"? It´s a summons to a hearing and it shouldn´t be planned around one man´s travel schedule. The question asked by the guy: "Are you aware that this was not planned to his convenience?" makes me laugh.

Who is stupid enough to buy this?

Cycle3man @ 114:

Mr Slime sled out!!
Is it possible that he will never return!!

You may be right. Check for Rove's handywork in the Grand Caymans or any tax-shelter country.