Newsweek.com is reporting that White House chief presidential advisor Karl Rove was in the middle of a March 5th meeting with Deputy counsel Kelly, Chief counsel Fielding, Deputy A G's Mc Nulty and Moschella among the others. The topic? Moschella's testimony the next day to the Judiciary committee of the House in regards to the termination of eight Special Prosecutors.
The meeting, which was previously reported by the Justice department, was to "shape the testimony of Deputy A G Moschella as to what they did, and why they did it." Not surprisingly, the previous disclosure by the Justice department in regards to the attendees mysteriously omitted one attendees name...you guessed it, Karl Rove. More bad intelligence?
Although 3 participants of the meeting (Rove, Mc Nulty and Fielding) knew in advance of the White House's role in pushing for the firings, Moschella was left uninformed, and thus, in capable of telling the truth when questioned by the house judiciary.
Newsweek is asking the obvious question, "Two months ago, he (Rove) helped coach Justice Department officials on how to testify about the U.S. attorneys’ firings. Was that a harmless part of his job, or an inappropriate attempt to mislead Congress?
It appears more and more obvious that the House Judiciary, in order to get down to the truth, must hear testimony from Rove, and others into this dreadful, apparently deceitful affair. The White House, of course is spurning any request, up to and including the threat of subpeonas. What would you expect from an administration so overloaded with things to hide?
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