Matt Gunterman April 24th, 2007

This development is very interesting, and the activities of Senator Mitch McConnell protégé J. Scott Jennings are at the center of the entire investigation. You can read Tom Hamburger’s entire article from the LA Times here.

Low-key office launches high-profile inquiry
The Office of Special Counsel will investigate U.S. attorney firings and other political activities led by Karl Rove.

WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited political activities.

But the Office of Special Counsel is preparing to jump into one of the most sensitive and potentially explosive issues in Washington, launching a broad investigation into key elements of the White House political operations that for more than six years have been headed by chief strategist Karl Rove.

The new investigation, which will examine the firing of at least one U.S. attorney, missing White House e-mails, and White House efforts to keep presidential appointees attuned to Republican political priorities, could create a substantial new problem for the Bush White House.

First, the inquiry comes from inside the administration, not from Democrats in Congress. Second, unlike the splintered inquiries being pressed on Capitol Hill, it is expected to be a unified investigation covering many facets of the political operation in which Rove played a leading part.

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How long until Bush fires the entire office for not being loyal Bushies? I’m sure they serve “at his pleasure,” and surely he’ll find this process terribly displeasing.

• GSA PowerPoint Scandal , J. Scott Jennings , Mitch McConnell , RNC Email Scandal , U.S. Attorneys Scandal
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Matt Gunterman April 16th, 2007

Given President George W. Bush’s history of standing proudly at the side of every loser in his administration until the very end, my guess is that J. Scott Jennings won’t be going anywhere soon.

Sounding off on what The Hound Dog just posted below, it does make you stop to think about how Senator Mitch McConnell protégé J. Scott Jennings managed to get himself at the center of three major scandals. You know, you just don’t end up in the midst of three major scandals without being scandalous by nature and nurture, quite frankly. We all know where J. Scott Jennings learned the tricks of the corruption trade: at the political teat of Senator Mitch McConnell.

Just to remind you what those three scandals are: first, there’s the U.S. Attorney firing scandal, where the continuing release of Jennings’ emails are providing important revelations about how high and how deep the scandals goes; second, there’s the RNC Email scandal, where Jennings, like many other political operatives in the White House, was using a private, Republican-sponsored email account to get around email archiving regulations; third, there’s the scandal, which the Washington Post editorialized about today, about Jennings using the resources of the United States government, through his PowerPoint presentations, etc., to do the political bidding of the Republican Party to the detriment of the American people.

With a record like this, no doubt President Bush believes that Jennings is doing a heck of a job.

• GSA PowerPoint Scandal , J. Scott Jennings , Mike Duncan , Mitch McConnell , RNC Email Scandal , U.S. Attorneys Scandal
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