E-Mails Show Machinations to Replace Prosecutor

Administration Worked for Months to Make Rove Aide U.S. Attorney in Arkansas

Two months before Bud Cummins was fired as U.S. attorney in Little Rock, a protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove was maneuvering with the Justice Department to take his place.

Last April, Tim Griffin, a Rove aide and longtime GOP operative, sent the attorney general's chief of staff a flattering letter about himself written by Cummins, the prosecutor he was trying to replace, internal e-mails released this week show. Rove and Harriet Miers, ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.1
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The story gathers volumes of information from behind the scenes of the schemes to install Griffin as US attorney. It is good background information showing the scheming to avoid checks and balances, though there seems to be no one big killer revelation.

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