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20071129

Karl Rove - Joshua Bolten - Sara Taylor - Harriet Miers - J Scott Jennings - US Attorneys - Politics - VT - "Leahy Rejects Bush Privilege Claim." ... "A Senate chairman said Thursday that [Republican] President Bush was not involved in the firings of U.S. attorneys last winter, and he therefore ruled illegal the president's executive privilege claims protecting his chief of staff, Josh Bolten, and former adviser Karl Rove." ... "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman [Vermont Democratic Senator] Patrick Leahy directed Bolten, Rove, former White House political director Sara Taylor and her deputy, J. Scott Jennings, to comply "immediately" with their subpoenas for documents and information about the White House's role in the firings of U.S. attorneys." ... "The ruling is a formality that clears the way for Leahy's panel to vote on whether to advance the citations to the full Senate." ... "House leaders also have filed a contempt citation in their chamber against Bolten and former [Republican President] White House Counsel Harriet Miers, but no floor vote has been scheduled." -By Laurie Kellman -AP via -SFGate.com

20070802

Karl Rove - Scott Jennings - US Attorneys - Political - Government - E-Mail - Internet - Presidential Records Act - Vermont - "Rove a no-show at hearing, aide skirts questions." ... "The top aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove refused to answer at least a dozen questions from a Senate committee Thursday about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, asserting -- as expected -- a claim of executive privilege by [Republican] President Bush." ... "Scott Jennings, who also is a special assistant to Bush, arrived at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with his attorney, Mark Paoletta, to avoid a contempt citation." ... "The panel had subpoenaed both Jennings and Rove, but Rove refused to show up, angering [Vermont Democratic Senator] Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont." ... ""I consider that blanket claim (of executive privilege) to be unsubstantiated," Leahy said he told Jennings before the meeting." ... "The senators sought answers about e-mail sent by dozens of White House staff using e-mail accounts provided through a Republican National Committee Internet address." ... "In March, congressional investigators found evidence that White House staffers had used those e-mail accounts to discuss government business -- including the firings of the U.S. attorneys -- in violation of the Presidential Records Act. The law is aimed at keeping government business separate from partisan political activities." ... ""Mr. Rove has given reasons for the firings that have now been shown to be inaccurate, after-the-fact fabrications," Leahy said in a statement issued Wednesday evening. "Yet he now refuses to tell this committee the truth about his role in targeting well-respected U.S. attorneys for firing and in seeking to cover up his role and that of his staff in the scandal."" -CNN

20070618

Karl Rove - Sara M Taylor - Scott Jennings - Government - E-Mail - 2004 Election - Presidential Records Act - Law - Calif - "Bush Officials Used RNC Server for Private E-mails." ... "Almost 90 White House officials have maintained private e-mail accounts on the server of the Republican National Committee, including top advisers such as Karl Rove and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, according to a House committee report released today." ... "The RNC has preserved more than 140,000 e-mails sent or received by Rove, but only 130 were written before President Bush won re-election in 2004, according to the report. The committee has preserved another 100,000 e-mails from two of Rove's top lieutenants, former White House political director Sara M. Taylor and deputy political director W. Scott Jennings, according to the House Oversight Committee." ... "The committee, chaired by [California Democratic Representative] Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), has been investigating whether the e-mail accounts run by the RNC and the Bush-Cheney '04 [2004 election] campaign committee violated the Presidential Records Act, which requires that every White House official "assure that the activities, deliberations, decisions, and policies that reflect the performance of his constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties are adequately documented."" -By Paul Kane -WashingtonPost

20070612

Lurita Doan - Scott Jennings - Government - Politics - 2006 Election - 2008 Election - "White House urged to punish GSA chief to 'fullest extent'." ... "[Republican President Bush appointee] General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan should "be disciplined to the fullest extent" for violating the law that limits political activity in [federal government] agencies, the head of the independent agency investigating the matter said in a letter to President Bush Friday." ... "The four-page letter [pdf], released by the Office of Special Counsel late Monday, stated that Doan also should be punished for failing to cooperate fully and honestly with OSC's investigation." ... "Special Counsel Scott Bloch said in the letter that the investigation concluded Doan violated the Hatch Act's prohibition against using her authority to interfere with or affect an election through her role in a Jan. 26 meeting at GSA headquarters. After a presentation by White House official Scott Jennings, Doan allegedly asked a question about helping Republican candidates [for the 2008 election], though accounts of her exact wording vary." ... "The letter does not address whether the presentation itself, which included a 28-slide PowerPoint presentation that analyzed the results of the 2006 midterm election, was a violation. OSC is investigating this issue separately." -By Daniel Pulliam -GovExec.com

20070524

Lurita Alexis Doan - J Scott Jennings - Karl Rove - 2006 Election - 2008 Election - Political - Government - Employee - "GSA Chief Violated Hatch Act, Special Counsel's Report Alleges." ... "The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan violated the federal Hatch Act when she allegedly asked GSA political appointees during a January briefing how they could "help our candidates" win the next [2008] election, according to a report by the office." ... "The Hatch Act restricts executive branch employees from using their position for political purposes. The special counsel's office, which investigates alleged violations of the law, said it would recommend that President Bush take disciplinary action against Doan, including possible removal from office." ... ""Her actions, to be certain, constitute an obvious misuse of her official authority and were made for the purpose of affecting the result of an election," investigators said in a copy of the 19-page report obtained by The Washington Post. "One can imagine no greater violation of the Hatch Act than to invoke the machinery of an agency, with all its contracts and buildings, in the service of a partisan campaign to retake Congress and the Governors' mansions."" ... "The special counsel's investigation was spurred by allegations that Doan solicited agency employees "to participate in political activities during a meeting held at GSA headquarters on January 26," the report said. The meeting, a "brown bag" luncheon, featured a presentation by J. Scott Jennings, deputy director of political affairs in Karl Rove's office at the White House." ... "Jennings gave a PowerPoint presentation of polling data about the 2006 midterm elections. In a slide called "2008 House Targets: Top 20," the presentation named 20 Democrats on whom Republicans intended to focus in 2008. Another slide, called "2008 House GOP Defense," listed GOP candidates to be protected." (1, 2) -By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Scott Higham -WashingtonPost

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20070522

Lurita Doan - Scott Jennings - Political - Government - Job - 2008 Election - "GSA chief violated Hatch Act, OSC report finds." ... "An Office of Special Counsel report has found that General Services Administration chief [Republican] Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job, sources say." ... "The report addresses a Jan. 26 lunch meeting at GSA headquarters attended by Doan and about 40 political appointees, some of whom participated by videoconference. During the meeting, [Republican] Scott Jennings, the White House deputy director of political affairs, gave a PowerPoint presentation that included slides listing Democratic and Republican seats the White House viewed as vulnerable in 2008, a map of contested Senate seats and other information on 2008 election strategy." ... "According to meeting participants, Doan asked after the call how GSA could help “our candidates.”" ... "Doan has until June 1 to respond to the OSC report, which was delivered to her May 18, according to officials. The officials asked to remain anonymous because the report has not been made public. " -By Daniel Friedman -FederalTimes.com

20070413

Rove - Miers - Gonzales - Political - Government - E-Mail - Communication - Archive - US Attorneys - "Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors." ... "The White House said Thursday that missing e-mail messages sent on Republican Party accounts may include some relating to the firing of eight United States attorneys." ... "The disclosure became a fresh political problem for the White House, as Democrats stepped up their inquiry into whether Karl Rove and other top aides to President Bush used the e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee to circumvent record-keeping requirements." ... "Mr. Rove uses several e-mail accounts, including one with the Republican National Committee, one with the White House and a private domain account that is registered to the political consulting company he once owned. Mr. Waxman said Mr. Kelner reported that in 2005, the national committee adopted a new policy, specifically aimed at Mr. Rove, which “removed Mr. Rove’s ability to personally delete his e-mails from the R.N.C. server.”" ... "Mr. Waxman also said he now had “serious concerns about the White House’s compliance with the Presidential Records Act,” a 1978 law that requires administrations to keep records of deliberations, decisions and policies. The congressman asked for an inventory of all communications by White House officials on nongovernment e-mail accounts." ... "The Democrats’ investigation into the political e-mail accounts grows directly out of the inquiry into the firing of the United States attorneys. When the Justice Department turned over documents to Congress, they showed that, contrary to the White House’s initial assertions, Mr. Rove and Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel, seemed to be involved in planning the dismissals." ... "The documents also revealed that a deputy to Mr. Rove, Scott Jennings, who works in the White House Office of Political Affairs, had used his Republican National Committee e-mail account, ending in gwb43.com, to communicate about the dismissals with a top aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales." (1, 2) -By Sheryl Gay Stolberg with contributions by Scott Shane and David Johnston -NYTimes

20070412

Rove - Ralston - Abramoff - Government - E-Mail- Electronic - Communication - History - Archive - Law - US Attorneys - Politics - "Countless White House E-Mails Deleted." ... "Countless e-mails to and from many key White House staffers have been deleted -- lost to history and placed out of reach of congressional subpoenas -- due to a brazen violation of internal White House policy that was allowed to continue for more than six years, the White House acknowledged yesterday." ... "The leading culprit appears to be President Bush's enormously influential political adviser Karl Rove, who reportedly used his Republican National Committee-provided Blackberry and e-mail accounts for most of his electronic communication." ... "Until 2004, all e-mail on RNC accounts was routinely deleted after 30 days. Since 2004, White House staffers using those accounts have been able to save their e-mail indefinitely -- but have also been able to delete whatever they felt like deleting. By comparison, the White House e-mail system preserves absolutely everything forever, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act." ... "In an afternoon conference call with reporters, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel spread the blame all around. "White House policy did not give clear enough guidance," he said." ... "But when I asked Stanzel to read out loud the White House e-mail policy, it seemed clear enough to me: "Federal law requires the preservation of electronic communications sent or received by White House staff," says the handbook that all staffers are given and expected to read and comply with." ... ""As a result, personnel working on behalf of the EOP [Executive Office of the President] are expected to only use government-provided e-mail services for all official communication."" ... "The handbook further explains: "The official EOP e-mail system is designed to automatically comply with records management requirements."" ... "And if that wasn't clear enough, the handbook notes --as was the case in the Clinton administration -- that "commercial or free e-mail sites and chat rooms are blocked from the EOP network to help staff members ensure compliance and to prevent the circumvention of the records management requirements."" ... "Stanzel refused to publicly release the relevant portions of the White House staff manual and denied my request to make public the transcript of the call, which lasted more than an hour but which -- due to Stanzel's refusal or inability to provide straight answers on many issues -- raised more questions than it answered." ... "The use of non-government e-mails first became an issue about four weeks ago, when some of the e-mails turned over in a congressional investigation of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys showed that Rove deputy Scott Jennings repeatedly used an RNC e-mail address (sjennings@gwb43.com) in his official communications. One e-mail to Rove was sent to a kr@georgewbush.com address." ... "Since then, it's been pointed out that some of the e-mails released in the congressional investigation of now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff indicated that former Rove aide Susan Ralston made a point of keeping her communication with Abramoff off the White House e-mail servers, and on either her RNC or AOL e-mail accounts." (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) -By Dan Froomkin -WashingtonPost

20070402

Lurita Doan - Karl Rove - J Scott Jennings - Government - Money - Employee - Law - California - "Doan hearing focuses on improper politics: Waxman seeks information about whether GSA's leader and others violated Hatch Act." ... "[California Democratic Representative] Rep. Henry Waxman lived up to his firebrand reputation by grilling General Services Administration Administrator Lurita Doan about allegations of inappropriate — possibly unlawful — behavior." ... "The California Democrat is now directing his investigation to the White House. Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wants to know whether a Jan. 26 meeting for political appointees at GSA's headquarters, on federal time about partisan issues, was a one-time occurrence or part of a pattern involving other federal agencies and potentially a violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits government employees from engaging in political activity while at work." ... "Waxman gave Karl Rove, President Bush’s deputy chief of staff, until April 13 to answer a series of questions about a PowerPoint presentation that J. Scott Jennings, Rove’s deputy, made at GSA’s headquarters Jan. 26. Waxman is also awaiting a ruling by the Office of Special Counsel on whether the January meeting violated the Hatch Act before he decides whether to pursue further hearings." ... "“This appears to be a textbook example of what should never happen at a federal agency,” Waxman said of the January meeting. “You can’t engage in partisan political activity on government time.”" ... "The alleged Hatch Act violation was just one of several accusations leveled at Doan in recent months. Waxman’s March 28 hearing tried to ferret out Doan’s involvement with the White House presentation, her attempt to push a $20,000 contract to a friend and her possible intervention in awarding a contract to Sun Microsystems." -By Matthew Weigelt -FCW.com

20070330

Karl Rove - J Scott Jennings - Lurita Doan - Government - Employee - Law - '08 Election - 2006 Election - Calif - "Panel Asks Rove for Information on '08 Election Presentation." ... "The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sought more information yesterday about a presentation by a White House aide given to political appointees at the General Services Administration that discussed targeting 20 Democratic congressional candidates in the next [2008] election." ... "In a letter to [Republican President Bush's] White House political affairs director Karl Rove, the committee chairman, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif. [California]), asked about the Jan. 26 videoconference by Rove deputy J. Scott Jennings, which was directed to the chief of the GSA and as many as 40 agency officials stationed around the country." ... "Jennings's 28-page presentation included 2006 election results and listed the names of Democratic candidates considered beatable and Republican lawmakers thought to need help. At a hearing Wednesday about the GSA, Waxman said the presentation and follow-up remarks allegedly made by agency chief Lurita Alexis Doan may have violated the Hatch Act, a law that restricts federal agencies and employees from using their positions for political purposes." -By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr. -WashingtonPost

20070326

Karl Rove - Lurita Doan - J Scott Jennings - Government - Money - Employee - Law - 2006 Election - 2008 Election - Calif - "GSA Chief Is Accused of Playing Politics: Doan Denies 'Improper' Use of Agency for GOP." ... "Witnesses have told congressional investigators that the chief of the General Services Administration and a deputy in Karl Rove's political affairs office at the White House joined in a videoconference earlier this year with top GSA political appointees, who discussed ways to help Republican candidates." ... "With GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan and up to 40 regional administrators on hand, J. Scott Jennings, the White House's deputy director of political affairs, gave a PowerPoint presentation on Jan. 26 of polling data about the 2006 elections." ... "When Jennings concluded his presentation to the GSA political appointees, Doan allegedly asked them how they could "help 'our candidates' in the next [2008] elections," according to a March 6 letter to Doan from Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif. [California]), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Waxman said in the letter that one method suggested was using "targeted public events, such as the opening of federal facilities around the country."" ... "On Wednesday, Doan is scheduled to appear before Waxman's committee to answer questions about the videoconference and other issues. The committee is investigating whether remarks made during the videoconference violated the Hatch Act, a federal law that restricts executive-branch employees from using their positions for political purposes. Those found in violation of the act do not face criminal penalties but can be removed from their jobs." ... "The committee is also expected to question Doan about her attempt to give a no-bid job to a friend and professional associate last summer. In addition, the committee plans to look at Waxman's charge that Doan "intervened" in a troubled technology contract with Sun Microsystems that could cost taxpayers millions more than necessary." (1, 2, 3) -By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr. with contributions by Alice Crites -WashingtonPost

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