| May 15, 2008 | - House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said that Karl Rove had a week to appear before the committee. “Someone’s got to kick his ass,” said Conyers.
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Politico.com
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| August 13, 2007 | -
Karl Rove announced his resignation.
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The Washington Post
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| May 2, 2007 | - Senator Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) issued a subpoena to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for emails from Karl Rove regarding the U.S. attorney firings.
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CNN.com
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| April 24, 2007 | - The Office of Special Counsel opened an investigation of Karl Rove.
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Los Angeles Times
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| April 19, 2007 | - “I wish the war was over,” said Karl Rove. “I wish the war never existed.”
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Akron Beacon Journal
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| April 13, 2007 | - It was reported that almost a year before seven U.S. attorneys were fired, an email from D. Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, proposed replacement candidates for them. Four years' worth of email from Karl Rove, sought by Democrats investigating Rove's role in the firings, was missing from the Republican National Committee server.
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NYT
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WaPo
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| March 29, 2007 | - In Washington, D.C., Karl Rove danced on stage during a press dinner and pretended to be a rapper, shouting: “I'm MC Rove.”
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BBC
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| April 16, 2006 | - Under the presumed influence of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, who collects photographs of President George W. Bush's hands, Karl Rove was relieved of his position as presidential policy adviser in order that he might focus his energies on the November midterm elections, and White House press secretary Scott McClellan resigned. “One of these days,” the President said of McClellan, “he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas and talking about the good old days.”
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USA Today
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Forbes.com
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BBC News
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| February 8, 2006 | -
Karl Rove was threatening to cut off White House support for Republican Senate Judiciary members who criticize the Bush Administration's
warrantless-wiretapping program. "It's hardball," said a Republican aide, "all the way."
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Democracy Now!
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| November 16, 2005 | -
Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward admitted that a “senior administration official” had revealed the identity of Valerie Wilson to him one month before administration officials revealed Wilson's identity to anyone else. The official is apparently neither I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. nor Karl Rove. Condoleezza Rice denied any involvement.
| Source 1:
Democracy Now!
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UPI
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| November 2, 2005 | -
Senator Harry Reid and Representative Nancy Pelosi called for Karl Rove to be stripped of his security clearance.
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KHON2/Fox News
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| October 27, 2005 | -
Karl Rove's alleged mistress was rumored to have left him for a ranch hand named Rhett Hard.
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DenverPost.com
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| October 16, 2005 | -
The New York Times
finally published an account of reporter Judith Miller's involvement in the Valerie Plame Wilson case. At issue in the case is a notebook in which Miller had written the name “Valerie Flame”; Miller said she could not recall the source of the name, even though she had used the same notebook to interview I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff. “We have everything to be proud of,” said Miller. It was reported that both Libby and Karl Rove would probably resign if indicted.
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The New York Times
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Time
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| September 19, 2005 | -
Judith Miller was still in jail.
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Editor & Publisher
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| September 15, 2005 | -
Karl Rove was named to head the relief effort in New Orleansin the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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Washington Post
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| July 28, 2005 | -
Karl Rove received a $4,000 raise.
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Democracy Now
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| July 18, 2005 | - It became clear that Karl Rove had leaked information about Valerie Plame to the press. In response, President George W. Bush, who had previously announced that he would fire anyone in his administration who was found to have leaked Plame's identity, announced that he would actually fire only proven criminals. "I don't know all the facts," said Bush.
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The New York Times
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| July 8, 2005 | -
New York Times journalist Judith Miller was sent to jail in Virginia for refusing to appear before a grand jury in connection to the Valerie Plame case. At the jail, where Zacarias Moussaoui is also an inmate, she had to sleep on the floor. Karl Rove's lawyer acknowledged that Rove spoke about Valerie Plame to Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper; Rove released Cooper from his promise of confidentiality, allowing the journalist to testify and avoid jail.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
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AFP
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| February 9, 2005 | -
Karl Rove was promoted.
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AZ Central
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| October 2, 2003 | - Plame and Rove, it was reported, attend the same Episcopal church.
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New York Times
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| September 30, 2003 | - The Bush Administration rejected calls for an independent counsel in the matter of Valerie Plame, whose identity as an undercover CIA operative was revealed by at least one senior White House official, possibly Karl Rove, in retribution for her husband's skeptical remarks about the president's case against Iraq.
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New York Times
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| September 29, 2003 | -
Rove, the president's political adviser, denied being the source of the leak, though he was reportedly fired from George H.W. Bush's 1992 reelection campaign for leaking damaging information about a rival to Bob Novak, the very columnist who exposed Plame in July.
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TalkingpointsMemo.com
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| September 28, 2003 | - At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department began investigating charges that the White House leaked the name of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame to the press in retaliation for remarks by her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, challenging President Bush's
claim that Iraq tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Africa. An unnamed administration official told the Washington Post that two White House officials had revealed the agent's identity to at least six journalists. "Clearly," the official said, "it was meant purely and simply for revenge." The White House denied that Karl Rove was responsible for the leak, which was a violation of the Intelligence Protection Act and carries penalties of up to 10 years in prison and $50,000 in fines.
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Washington Post
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Karl Rove, senior adviser to President Bush, met with Hollywood executives in an attempt to drum up some good patriotic movies.
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| June 19, 2001 | - Procter & Gamble largely eliminated its line of foods containing Olestra, a fat substitute that failed to catch on with consumers, perhaps because of widespread concerns about “anal oil leakage.” Karl Rove, President Bush's chief adviser, was in trouble because he owned $100,000 worth of Intel stock when he met with the company's CEO, who was in town lobbying for approval of a corporate merger, which followed with celerity.
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