Monday, September 29, 2003

Rover Red Rover

Josh Marshall brings us this flashback.

Sources close to the former president [George H.W. Bush] say Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush presidential campaign after he planted a negative story with columnist Robert Novak about dissatisfaction with campaign fundraising chief and Bush loyalist Robert Mosbacher Jr. It was smoked out, and he was summarily ousted.

And, brings up the question of the phone logs again. The White House has already established a practice for opening the phone logs for journalists. I see no reason for them to not continue this practice.