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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 09:42 PM
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Where in the World WAS .. Karl?
Edited on Wed Aug-13-08 09:46 PM by SoCalDem
"The Crimea" is too vague.. Was he in the Ukraine? Was he traveling WITH Condi?..Did they meet up "over there"..

There was a meeting of an "independent think tank" in the Ukraine, just before the EU meeting..around July 6th.. was he there?..What WERE they "thinking" about?..war?

He HAD to be sleeping somewhere...

It's too much of a co-ink-ee-dink that he would choose "the Crimea" as his vacation spot....just as Mccain was turning up the heat on his lamepaign, and as Condi was ginning up trouble in Georgia..

Just exactly which "vacation spots:" are IN the Crimea, anyway??

Anyone have friends or family in Europe who might have read about "famous Americans" visiting in the area?

Often, local reports of "visitors" don't even make our papers:)

EDIT:

Just found this:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/147776
House Democrats were fuming recently when Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena and refused to show up at a House Judiciary Committee hearing into whether he meddled in Justice Department prosecutions. Instead of grilling the former White House political chief under oath, the members found themselves talking to an empty chair. What they didn't know is where Rove was that day: on a jet flying to a speaking engagement at Yalta, the historic Black Sea resort in Ukraine. Rove, who generally charges a reported $40,000 per talk, appeared on a premier panel (along with Democratic strategist Bob Shrum) on the upcoming U.S. election at the fifth annual conference of the YES Foundation, a confab of world luminaries bankrolled by billionaire Victor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian steel magnate and son-in-law of the country's former autocratic president, Leonid Kuchma.

Democrats on the judiciary panel were outraged when they heard about Rove's overseas jaunt on the day he'd been ordered to testify. "That's just extremely contemptuous--it shows the disdain that he has for Congress and which he has encouraged in the Bush White House," said Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee. But Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer, said the criticism was "fatuous" because, before he took off, Rove had been directed by White House counsel Fred Fielding not to show up. The reason: as a former presidential adviser, the White House views anything he might say to the panel as covered by executive privilege. "What was he supposed to do, sit at home with his lights off?" said Luskin. "I understand that people are unhappy that he didn't show up." But the no-show "was not something we concocted so he could make money in Yalta." Rove himself did not respond to a request for comment. But last week in an appearance on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show, Rove dismissed the Democrats' demand for his testimony: "They want a circus," he said.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 09:44 PM
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1. Rove was in the neighborhood, in Yalta,
09:30 – 11:00 – Plenary session: Elections in Russia and the USA: impact on Ukraine and Europe

What will be the foreign policy of the new Russian and American leadership over the coming years? How will it impact their relationship with the European Union and Ukraine, and EU’s further enlargement?

Moderator: Richard Haass
Panel: Sergey Glaziev, Director, Institute for New Economy, member of the 1st, 3rd and 4th Russian State Duma
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Ambassador to the Russian Federation and First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Alexander Rahr, Programme Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, member of the Board of YES
Karl Rove, Former Deputy Chief of Staff to George W. Bush and Chief Strategist for Bush's Presidential Campaigns
Bob Shrum, political consultant and Senior Fellow, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/did-karl-rove-chat-to-saakashvili-about-south-ossetia-too/
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:34 PM
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2. Uh oh.. the real reason he went??..Sexy Russian DJ Played Naked in Sofia's Yalta Club
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