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Questions I’d like to see someone ask Karl RoveASK THIS | June 171, 2008The author of a new Rove biography thinks the newly minted television pundit still has some explaining to do – about Valerie Plame, Jack Abramoff, Don Siegelman and missing White House e-mails, just for starters. By Paul Alexander Through his appearances on the Fox News Network and his columns in Newsweek, Karl Rove has reinvented himself as a pundit. I must say, however, that every time I encounter his punditry I think to myself that I still have a few questions for him left over from his last gig -- senior adviser to the president -- a post he held from the start of the Bush administration until August 31, 2007. Members of the House Judiciary Committee have a few questions for him as well, but so far Rove has refused to appear before the body under oath. Given the opportunity, here are just a few of the questions I would like to see posed to Rove next time he pops up in public: Q. Congressman Tom DeLay was brought down by a money-laundering scheme whereby corporate contributions were made to his political action committee that were then distributed to state political candidates in Texas, circumventing state laws that prohibited corporate campaign contributions to state candidates. What role did you play in the money-laundering scheme? Q. Susan Ralston, a former aide to Jack Abramoff, worked for you in the White House. Did she pass information back and forth between you and Abramoff? If so, what kind of information? Q. Why did you conduct most of your official White House business using a private e-mail system run by the Republican Party instead of the official White House e-mail system? Q. Describe your association with Leura Canary, a United States attorney in Alabama and wife of your good friend and former business partner William “Bill” Canary. Did you in any way advise or help facilitate what is now being described as the wrongful prosecution of former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama, a prosecution headed up by Leura Canary? Q. In your last appearance before the grand jury convened by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald you testified that you had forgotten you leaked the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, a covert CIA agent, to Matt Cooper of Time. What exactly made you remember that you had not told the truth to the grand jury four previous times – and that you in fact had leaked Plame’s identity to a reporter, a federal crime? Q. Do you still have plans to try to establish a permanent Republican majority in this country, as you have stated publicly? Why would you want to establish such a majority?
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