Perks
Mmm, I love the smell of law and order. Via Froomkin:
Greg B. Smith writes in the New York Daily News: “The White House political adviser and deputy chief of staff took time from his busy schedule early last year to personally track down a bothersome spammer who made the mistake of hitting subscribers to President Bush’s campaign site, the Daily News has learned.
“Sometime after Rove intervened, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan opened a criminal investigation that ultimately led to the arrest of a Florida man while he was at the movies with his then-7-year-old daughter.”
Smith writes that “e-mails, phone records and transcripts of secretly recorded phone conversations turned over to defense attorneys make it clear that Rove, in January 2005, was personally involved in finding the culprits who spammed the Bush campaign site.”
That’s awesome. What other personal issues has Rove used federal government resources to resolve? Spammers are rotten, but the words “Karl Rove” and “personal vendetta” (admittedly not used above, but read between the lines) just make me a little queasy. Remember when Delay had Homeland Security track down a plane belonging to the leader of the Texas Democrats? For these guys, the security state is just a plaything. What would they do if they thought they could get away with it?
