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PNAC member of the week: Karl Rove |
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12-06-03 |
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Attended 6 colleges
without ever getting a degree, He later went on to teach graduate
students.
Mr Rove was one of the biggest holders of Enron
stock among White House staffers, with between $100,000 and $250,000 worth
of shares when he was appointed. The White House has acknowledged that Mr
Rove took part in the secret meetings that helped shape the Bush
government’s energy policy, while he still held Enron shares and stock
in other energy companies.
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| Said, by some, to be the most powerful
presidential advisor in a century. Said, by more, to be the chief
instigator of dirty tricks and character assassination campaigns against
those who challenge the policies of the Bush administration. He earned his
stripes first as an apprentice of Richard Nixon's dirty trickster, Donald
Segretti. Rove then went on to hone and refine his duplicitous craft under
Republican National Committee chairmen George H. W. Bush, Lee Atwater,
and, finally, George W. Bush |
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trashing the personal character of former Texas Democratic Governors Mark
White and Ann Richards, Texas Democratic Representative Lloyd Doggett, and
Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, Rove now uses his tricks to
assassinate the characters of noble and non-political men and women.
Recent victims have been PFC Jessica Lynch, CIA agent Valerie Plame,
former Marine Corps officer Scott Ritter, retired Marine Corps General
Anthony Zinni, and Iraqi War commander General Tommy Franks. Over the
years, Rove has relied on the planting of bogus stories in the media,
production of counterfeit documents, the theft of campaign materials and
internal documents, production of false witnesses, electronic
eavesdropping, misuse of government resources, unethical political polling
techniques, intimidation of minority voters, and "whispering
campaigns" to advance the sordid agenda of the neo-conservative,
extreme right wing of the Republican Party. |
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PNAC member, Wialliam Kristol has said of Rove: "I
believe Karl is Bush. They’re not separate, each of them
freestanding, with distinct agendas, as some people say. Karl thinks X.
Bush thinks X. Clearly, it’s a very complicated relationship." |
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