Rove Suspected In Swedish-U.S. Political Prosecution of WikiLeaks

[Joanne98]

Karl Rove's help for Sweden as it assists the Obama administration's prosecution against WikiLeaks could be the latest example of the adage, "Politics makes strange bedfellows."

Rove has advised Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt for the past two years after resigning as Bush White House political advisor in mid-2007. Rove's resignation followed the scandalous Bush mid-term political purge of nine of the nation's 93 powerful U.S. attorneys.

These days, Sweden and the United States are apparently undertaking a political prosecution as audacious and important as those by the notorious "loyal Bushies" earlier this decade against U.S. Democrats.

The U.S. prosecution of WikiLeaks, if successful, could criminalize many kinds of investigative news reporting about government affairs, not just the WikiLeaks disclosures that are embarrassing Sweden as well as the Bush and Obama administrations. Authorities in both countries are setting the stage with pre-indictment sex and spy smears against WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange, plus an Interpol manhunt.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kreig/rove-suspected-in-swedish_b_798737.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. "Suspected"? His fingerprints are all over this.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. That would make sense, wouldn't it?

Because this whole thing reeks of the methods we saw during the Clinton witchhunt.

[sabrina 1]

3. Yes, it's almost identical. I thought about Rove too but

thought the Swedes a bit better than to engage with such a criminal. I guess not.

[divine_truine]

4. phony msm outlets enabling these corrupt govts, complicit in misinforming the people...

...undeserving of wearing the badge of honor that is the 1st Amendment & FREEDOM OF THE PRESS!

abcmsnbccnn, etc./ cowardly pieces of schit! all of them! you all are an embarassment to all credible journalists all over the world!

[GentryDixon]

5. He doesn't want the truth coming out.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Embracing the Turd Blossom and all it stands for.

Shuler is an expert on how Rove-era "Loyal Bushies" undertook political prosecutions against Democrats on trumped up corruption charges across the Deep South, including against former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, his state's leading Democrat. The Siegelman case has turned into most notorious U.S. political prosecution of the decade, as readers here well know. It altered that state's politics and improved business opportunities for companies well-connected to Bush, Rove and their state GOP supporters.

Ultimately, the House Judiciary Committee's oversight questioning of Rove in July 2009 turned out to be a whitewash. The probe was crippled by restrictions on format that had been brokered by the Obama White House and, more importantly, by an unwillingness of House Democrats to risk antagonizing Rove and his backers by asking obvious questions. Call it speculation, but the federal bribery charges that imprisoned the wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) surely deterred him from building a thorough case regarding Rove's relationship with the DOJ, or at least calling relevant witnesses from the Justice Department and elsewhere for public testimony.

Thanks for the thread, Joanne.

[4dsc]

8. Same old Democratic party.

Weak kneed and afraid of its own shadow.

[Peggy Day]

7. Never mind

[crikkett]

9. Rove's advised Reinfeldt for the past two years?! Wikileaks on Sweden:

http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-cable-shows-us-involvement-in-swedish-anti-piracy-efforts-101207/
Wikileaks Cable Shows US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts

http://www.stoprussia.org/2010/12/02/sweden-wanted-to-kick-russia-out-of-council/
Wikileaks: Sweden wanted to kick Russia out of Council

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8202745/WikiLeaks-Swedish-government-hid-anti-terror-operations-with-America-from-Parliament.html
WikiLeaks: Swedish government 'hid' anti-terror operations with America from Parliament

[Blue Owl]

10. Because he and the money party are guilty as sin

and they know it.