Rove Investigator Faces Own Allegations

Source: ABC News

The senior government official who says he is investigating Karl Rove for allegations he influenced government activity for partisan purposes is himself facing allegations of similar behavior.

In interviews yesterday with reporters, Scott J. Bloch disclosed that his Office of Special Counsel was opening a broad probe of the White House political office and its interaction with government agencies. The investigation will cover the use of private e-mail accounts by White House aides, the firing of at least one U.S. attorney and presentations of political data by White House aides to other officials in government, Bloch told the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

But government watchdogs have accused Bloch himself of similar behavior. In April 2005, they and others complained the White House appointee had allowed his office to "sit on" a complaint that then-White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice used government funds to travel in support of President Bush's re-election bid.

By contrast, they said, Bloch ordered an immediate on-site investigation of a complaint that Bush's challenger for the White House, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., improperly campaigned in a government workplace, which had been filed around the same time.



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On edit adding LA Times Story:

Even as Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch moved forward with plans for a sweeping probe of the Bush administration, several advocacy groups complained that his ties to the administration and to conservative groups, as well as his record on gay rights and whistle-blowers, made him the wrong man for the job.

"There is a serious question as to whether Bloch will just provide cover for an administration that is covering for him," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a Democratic-leaning group.

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The advocacy groups charge, among other things, that Bloch initiated a policy that made it more difficult for gay employees to allege discrimination.

A whistle-blower group said Bloch had a poor record of protecting those reporting wrongdoing. And, these critics pointed out, the Office of Personnel Management is investigating alleged improper employment practices including intimidation of workers at the Special Counsel agency.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-probe25apr25,0,7671510.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Can see this investigation will find Rove as pure as snow! :sarcasm:

Good for CREW

I hadn't heard about this OCS bit but he asked Gonzales very specifically about it... apparently with very good reason to do so...

And that is the only reason that the WH would let this happen.

Self-imposed whitewash.

Tom Sawyer handing it off...

Everything is rigged in bushland.

Rice can investigate Cheney, who can investigate Rove, who can investigate bush who can then turn around and investigate Rice.

Once they all finish they can report to each other the findings and then and only then will truth come out.

:sarcasm:

* Note this isn't any more ridiculous than Bloch investigating the email losses and the Judge firings.

a circle jerk?

sorry, I had to say it! :evilgrin:

And what a circle of jerks.

And if he has his way none of them will ever see the light of day.

the original story this morning has 30 recs the last I saw. as I said this morning, Rove probably ordered this "investigation".