That if Gonzales left, all of a sudden all those questions about how the U.S. attorneys' matter was handled would go to the White House and go specifically to Rove.
Lefkowitz said that after reviewing the matter he reported back in early June to Rove and the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives that the best way to handle the Salvation Army's request would be to allow for a public comment period for a proposed regulation and then consider making changes.
They tie him to everybody from President Bush to Karl Rove to Jack Abramoff, and I think that message has gotten through to the people in Ohio.
Before you conclude this is far-fetched, think back to Karl Rove's strategy in 2004 to move right with strident social conservatism on abortion and same-sex marriage, steep tax cuts and hawkish policies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
His importance to them has been compared to that of Karl Rove to George Bush.
The committee also authorized Leahy to subpoena Rove, but in June, two Democratic congressional sources said they decided not to issue a subpoena for him because they are building their case by talking to and gathering information from lower-level witnesses and officials before they get to the more senior, more important witnesses.
The Bush administration has insisted that the firing of the attorneys was handled properly, but critics have charged the attorneys were forced out for political motives and, in one case, to allow a protege of Rove to take one of the posts.
It has ties to Karl Rove's American Crossroads political action committee, whose president is the Chamber's former chief lawyer.
Does this mean that you intend to issue a subpoena to Karl Rove or perhaps others at the White House?
Other reporters had talked to Karl Rove, Mr Bush's top political adviser.
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Rove volunteered to return back in July after Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper had testified to a conversation with Rove in July of 2003.
Dr Sekhon notes that, thanks to Karl Rove, the mastermind of George Bush's election victories in 2000 and 2004, the Republicans have been far more effective at exploiting new scientific information about voting and elections.
Lefkowitz said that in the middle to end of May Rove asked him to see if there was a "legal solution" to the issue.
The documents also showed that she worked closely with White House political operative Karl Rove to remove the United States attorney in Arkansas so that one of Rove's aides could take the job.
In his first formal response to questions about Karl Rove's activities, White House Counsel Al Gonzales sent a letter to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, after the congressman sent Rove a letter seeking information about his stock holdings and his meetings with business executives.
At least instead of it going to media companies and to bloviating political fixers like Karl Rove, left to the taxman it goes to the general good.
After his inauguration in January 2001, President Bush invited Mr Rove to become his Senior Adviser.
Ms. PEREZ: First of all, I don't think very many people are going to remember Karl Rove.
So I think that was very, very smart of Karl Rove to go after that particular demographic.
At this point, before we know all the facts, there's no reason to believe that Rove, O'Neill or Cheney did anything illegal.
Joining us to talk about Rove, his legacy and the Bush administration without him is a former senior official who had top communications positions in both Bush administrations - Anna Perez.
Hundreds of young conservatives flooded into the capital to listen to their heroes (including a wrestler called Warrior), to learn how to identify liberal textbook bias, to visit the White House, and to watch Karl Rove receiving the Lee Atwater Leadership Award.
Lead defense attorney Ted Wells portrayed Libby as a fall-guy caught up in a White House effort to protect presidential political adviser Karl Rove, who turned out to be one of the sources for Robert Novak's column on July 14, 2003, that outed Plame.
The White House offered instead to allow presidential adviser Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and others to be interviewed in private by congressional committees.
He said outsiders like Republican strategist Karl Rove are to blame for any incivility.
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Put the entire argument to rest with Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie by providing the list.
"We want to build up and get documents to have basis to ask questions of Rove, " one of the sources said.
In addition to polls not generally available to the public, Rove says the Republicans have a huge financial advantage in the home stretch.
He and Rove appealed to the old hands in a new way: he actually asked for their opinions before he asked for their money.
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