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Top Rove aide, implicated in Attorneys firings, clears out office
Another one of the Youth Corps bites the dust.
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Top Rove aide, implicated in Attorneys firings, clears out office
Michael Roston
Published: Monday May 28, 2007
A top aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove has 'cleared out her office,' according to a report in Monday's Washington Post. Sara Taylor, Rove's top lieutenant, has seen her name brought up in recent months in Congressional hearings relating to the firing of 8 US Attorneys.
"Taylor, 32, was one of the first people put on the payroll of the Bush campaign," writes Michael Fletcher in the new 'At the White House' column. "Taylor cleared out her office early last week. She plans to take her skills to the private sector."
Taylor is described by Fletcher as skilled in 'microtargeting,' the practice of identifying voting constituencies at their most elemental levels. She has also come up as a potential target for a subpoena from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, as RAW STORY has earlier reported.
The White House political strategist was first identified as playing a role in the removal of US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas H.E. 'Bud' Cummins during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with D. Kyle Sampson, the former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Taylor was also identified by Monica Goodling, Gonzales's former White House Liaison. After Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) asked Goodling what Karl Rove knew about the firing of the US Attorneys, she suggested Taylor had signed off on the plan.
"There was an e-mail that Mr. Sampson forwarded to me, I think, on December 4, if I'm remembering correctly, that said that it had been circulated to different offices within the White House and that they had all signed off," Goodling answered. "I think it said that White House political had signed off. Political is actually headed by Sara Taylor but does report to Mr. Rove, so I don't know for sure."
In April, Taylor was threatened with the possibility of facing a subpoena.
"The Committee is expected to vote on [the authorization of a subpoena] next week for Sara M. Taylor, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs," read an April 12 press release from Senator Patrick leahy (D-VT), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Subsequent action on Taylor was not taken. However, the committee has authorized a subpoena for her assistant, J. Scott Jennings.
While subpoenas have been authorized, White House officials have not yet been compelled to testify. White House Counsel Fred Fielding continues to maintain that their statements cannot be taken on the record because the content of any testimony would be privileged communications.
Congressional investigators have in turn threatened to issue subpoenas as the White House has dug in its heels.
"If the White House persists in refusing to provide information to the House Judiciary Committee, or even to discuss providing such information, on a voluntary basis, we will have no alternative but to begin to resort to the compulsory process in order to carry out our oversight responsibilities," said Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) in a May 21 letter to Fielding.
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Last edited by wallyburger; September 26th, 2008 at 08:15 AM.
They all seem to be blonde preppies. I swear this is THE most partisan administration in my memory. They have spent the whole time stacking every level of government and the Judiciary and Defense with as many young true believers as possible, especially going after non-appointed slots from what I have read -- I don't know how we will ever root this out of the system... Short of slashing the size of government for a change, which the Bushistas certainly haven't done.
I wouldn't want to be the next President for anything on Earth. If its a Dem, he or she won't make it a year without trumped-up scandal -- they'll do everything in their power to tie the new administration's hands. And frankly, I'd be surprised if a Democrat survives one term.
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What's funny is that Rove is actually an atheist and he pillages and plunders these loyalist-churning "religious" institutions to stack our government with these naiive "religious" hacks whose only qualifications are their undying loyalties that supercede their understanding and respect for the law....
It's like a sick mock up of the pied piper where Rove is a nefarious anti-Christ figure entrancing, by means of his alluring mastery of the pan flute (power), "people of Christ" to do his bidding....
They all seem to be blonde preppies. I swear this is THE most partisan administration in my memory. They have spent the whole time stacking every level of government and the Judiciary and Defense with as many young true believers as possible, especially going after non-appointed slots from what I have read -- I don't know how we will ever root this out of the system... Short of slashing the size of government for a change, which the Bushistas certainly haven't done.
I wouldn't want to be the next President for anything on Earth. If its a Dem, he or she won't make it a year without trumped-up scandal -- they'll do everything in their power to tie the new administration's hands. And frankly, I'd be surprised if a Democrat survives one term.
I take it that you are not a blonde. Brunette maybe..
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