Thanks Jane–fixed.

And yes–it’s pretty clear Rove is still involved in messaging. I wonder if he still has his security clearance?

Jodi:

We let go after the statute of limitations has passed, not before.

Also, active concealment of the facts by Bush probably prolongs the statute.

Heh heh. Several months back, starting maybe as far back as February or March, and continuing on until a couple of weeks after his resignation, I recall many different participants here, including me (heh heh, I might have suggested it), discussing whether or not Alberto Gonzales (among others like Goodling, Sampson, Schlozman etc.) had violated ethical standards as lawyers and were, therefore, subject to a bar complaint. I know William Ockham was one, maybe Jane S., … Anyway, apparently there has indeed been a bar complaint against Gonzales filed in Texas and the Texas bar has initiated an investigation. Do any of our Texas friends here know anything about that, heard anything, seen press coverage or anything?

bmaz – The complaint against Gonzo was turned down by the Texas bar. The complainant wrote a diary on Dailykos announcing it, quoting from his correspondence with the Bar Association and their inane replies.

ecoast – Thanks. That figures. State Bars are usually under the purview of a state’s supreme court. Gonzales, although for a short and undistinguished time, was on the Texas Supreme Court and the Bush family has a very strong voice in the court today. More failure of accountability; it is shameless. Irrespective of their decision, I can guarantee that Gonzales did indeed violate the ethical cannons.

bmaz,

I never filed a complaint. I wanted to file one against Miers, but the House never followed through on citing her for contempt. I think it would be harder for a complaint to be ignored if she was cited.

Anyway, apparently there has indeed been a bar complaint against Gonzales filed in Texas and the Texas bar has initiated an investigation. Do any of our Texas friends here know anything about that, heard anything, seen press coverage or anything?

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Yes! The complaint was filed by an attorney who wrote a diary or two about it on dailykos! He was very serious about it and seemed to have worked hours on putting the documentation together. Where did you see the story? I hope they take his license away.

However, I don’t know the name of the diarist or the name of the diary. You should find it with a search.

O/T

If anyone is interested, Richard Mellon Scaife’s divorce papers are on the web:

Documents from
Richard M. Scaife
v. Margaret Ritchie Battle Scaife

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07266/819835-85.stm

In one item it claims â€Request for reduction in alimony,†we learn that this no ordinary income, for RMS makes 10 times more per month than the last richest man to file for divorce.

Can’t beat the wife’s name, though.

Yes, I agree bmas. ….and that she becomes extremely â€Ritchieâ€

To do the first thing Rove’s Novak would expect with the date certain Friday, September 29, 2006, might be to re-peruse that WashingtonPost article byline WHamilton echoing Andrew Card’s AutoExculpatory remarks on the occasion of the eve of BobWoodward’s StateOfDenial semi-apologia; the jive rap in the WaPo blurb rambles about minutia of the dumpRumsfeld movement within the administration. There is synchronicity in this article’s publication date being the same as NovakRove unRapprochement, September 29; but little seems to correspond to rekindling the newly Lufkin Blessed restoration of using Novak for quotidian propaganda or items which might have extra verve if Novak could publish something that would denigrate mere centrists.

I agree it might be more useful to re-scan the prior month. Yet, the Woodward tome stirred Armitage to subsequent further pronouncements. It is also true that September 2006 Frist was in high dudgeon polemicizing about the right to torture prisoners, hold them without counsel, try them in secret, prohibit them from confronting their accusers, deny them access to the rigged and unrigged evidence against them, and all those themes for which BushCheneyNeoCons were positively salivating, and, perhaps reluctantly so, Rove, as well, but the latter only for the added bludgeonFactor which whets the appetite of the least scruppleBound of politicoes. Maybe Rove also enjoyed the unHippocraticness of Frist’s complicity in that feud, besides enjoying the fertile production of slogans to take into the autumn by-elections that year, 2006.

Then again, I continue wondering about the 2004 Judy transcript which even in 2007 was still redacted in part. I would expect that around the time Rove got his plenary indulgence from Fitzgerald, goldBarsLufkin, maybe Novak, and a few other people at that stage of the Plame-Libby investigation would have seen what we have yet to see in the public version of that testimony document.

Actually, I could admit even as yet I have missed viewing the Florida ballot rigging scam documentary which Rather aired within the past month, evidently that election plot was well underway by early autumn 2006; and, though Rove had been handed the impossible task of saving his party from doom in that election, and was to fail, he may have known some people were arranging for skewed printing and chadProne cardboard stock to be substituted for the highrade standard product in the raw materials manufacture in the Philippines, later shipped to FL and with successful outcome for the perpetrators, as statistically significant numbers of ballots disqualified. All the kind of gravy Rove would like on the election banquet. So, in summary, I am still looking. I admit to avoiding Novak’s writing, but there is an ongoing project looking through the e-archives here.

The Woodward excerpts published October 1, 2006 in WaPo are there.

Two more items surfaced in this search. A Frist effort to obsolete the FISA court; NYT used to have a valid link †rel=â€nofollowâ€>there, but I am still redesigning NYT searches since their unplugging their payWall. Maybe that link remains valid. The article referenced appeared during the week prior, i.e. September 14. And, around that part of September 2006 it was clear to lots of us Mark Warner likely was headed back to state political races rather than the lofty goals he brought to the ambitious needleParty of Ykos notoriety; though technically the formal announcement of the end of the TestingTheWatersForWarner campaign occurred ColumbusDay 2006.

Judy Miller is an interesting person. Apparently she was one of the last people to talk to David Kelly. Given who David Kelly was/doing, is the tie -in to Valerie Plame, her day job and whom she was investigating, somewhere there?

it wasn’t condesending

Too bad, girl. EW obviously didn’t recognize your tone before telling you what to do with your well-intended consolations.

Cymro,

I did a search. I see no reference to my comment by emptywheel.

AJ,

ok, the â€girl talk†issue is clear, but on the second one, they can’t take me back when I haven’t been there. Perhaps you are confusing me with someone you know over there?