The Hound Dog April 27th, 2007
The House Government and Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to call RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, the banker from Inez, Kentucky and close ally of Senator Mitch McConnell to appear and answer questions about the use of RNC email accounts by Karl Rove and former Mitch McConnell political director J. Scott Jennings.
The subpoena to the RNC directed the committee to produce information about the use of its e-mail accounts by White House officials. A separate subpoena was authorized to call RNC Chairman Mike Duncan to appear before the committee.
Looks like Mike Duncan is going to be asked some questions about exactly how many RNC email accounts are being used to try and circumvent the Hatch Act.
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.
The Hound Dog April 16th, 2007
Joseph Gerth’s Political Notebook in the Courier Journal today was a start piece, but we have yet to see more written on what is really going on with the missing emails in the US Attorney scandal: One political operative of Senator Mitch McConnell is protecting another. Is anyone else surprised that the banker from Inez, Kentucky who is now RNC Chairman, Mike Duncan, is protecting the former political director to Sen. Mitch McConnell from Dawson Springs, Kentucky, J. Scott Jennings?
Jennings is the former political director for Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and is now the White House’s deputy director of political affairs under Karl Rove.
E-mail messages handed over to a congressional committee show Jennings used a Republican National Committee e-mail address to discuss the firings with aides to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales…
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee authorized its chairman, Patrick Leahy, to subpoena Jennings and compel him to reveal his role in the firings.
And House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers wrote another Kentuckian, RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, an Inez banker, asking him to provide all firing-related e-mail from government employees to his committee before turning them over to the White House.
Cross-posted at CliffSchecter.com
