{"id":10366,"date":"2007-03-30T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T18:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10366.html"},"modified":"2007-03-30T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T18:05:47","slug":"rove-aides-resigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/rove-aides-resigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Rove aides resigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normal turnover or purge-related panic? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2007\/03\/30\/white-house-faces-more-departures\/\">Hmm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several impending departures from the White House could further complicate life for the hard-pressed Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Wehner, the head of strategic initiatives, and political director Sara Taylor are expected to be heading for the White House exits soon, according to a person familiar with the situation. Barry Jackson, a longtime aide to Karl Rove, also is thought to be leaving soon. A White House spokesman confirmed Wehner&#8217;s imminent departure, but declined to comment on the others.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the maelstrom of controversy and complication at the White House these days, all the departures appear to be more-or-less routine turnover. Several of the aides have been with the administration virtually from the outset.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is part of a &#8220;more-or-less&#8221; routine staffing change? One need not be a cynic to lean towards &#8220;less.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, as Paul Kiel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/002927.php\">noted<\/a> today, Taylor&#8217;s name was referenced several times yesterday during Kyle Sampson&#8217;s testimony, and she was apparently involved in installing Rove acolyte Tim Griffin as a U.S. Attorney in Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the scandal hits crisis mode, the White House political director and a top Rove are resigning? Interesting timing, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal turnover or purge-related panic? Hmm. Several impending departures from the White House could further complicate life for the hard-pressed Bush administration. Peter Wehner, the head of strategic initiatives, and political director Sara Taylor are expected to be heading for the White House exits soon, according to a person familiar with the situation. Barry Jackson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}