Rove Investigation: A Whitewash???

Down with Tyranny has an interesting post on this special investigation of Rove.
It could be a whitewash to insulate Rove against the democrats investigations, especially if AG goes down. Bushies think AG is useful to wall against the democrats. if he goes down they will go after Rove.
So, here is part of the article:

PERPARE FOR THE WHITEWASH

So my instincts were correct; the head of the Office of the Special Counsel, Scott Bloch, is a corrupt toady, a complete lackey of the Bush Regime and under investigation himself! This is strictly a whitewash and an attempt to derail a serious investigation of Rove. The L.A. Times story cited above "failed to inform its readers that Bloch had been accused of retaliating against employees who disagreed with his policies, and intimidating them before they were questioned about a whistle-blower investigation inside the Office of the Special Counsel. The whistle-blower probe was launched by the White House's Office of Personnel Management inspector general nearly two years ago, according to a February 16, 2007 story in the Washington Post." In fact Discourse.net asks a crucial question about the investigation:

I wonder if the purpose of this move isn’t to insulate Rove and others. Now, they have an excuse not to answer any questions. If Congress calls, they all take the 5th — “Would love to talk but I’m being investigated by the OSC.” Ditto for the White House press office — “we never comment on pending investigations” (afterwards they say, “we already dealt with that,” but I’m getting ahead of myself).
Is it too paranoid to expect a memo saying that they failed to prove anything beyond reasonable doubt — in Dec 2008? Or maybe just before the Nov 2008 election? After all, the OSC has a record of just closing cases without review in order to be able to report a lower number of backlogged cases.
So far, everything about this administration has been worse than anyone might reasonably have expected. Why should this be any different?
I can see Rove chuckling now, ‘Please OSC, don’t throw me in that briar patch!’

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that a real investigation might take and destroy any evidence that would hurt Rove or Bush. If he isn't stopped, then his Office of Special Counsel will get rid of all the tracks.

...it's a ruse.

It IS a whitewash.

Rove recognizes that the brazen manipulation of the GSA and other agencies represents trouble because it's so well documented.

Hence the whitewash investigation "no wrongdoing", to steal thunder from a real investigation or head it off.

Leahy and Waxman need to press on.