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Can Bush Still Grant Permanent Immunity to Rove, Others, from Testifying?
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — A Long-Lived Privilege? Bush lawyer directs Rove not to talk to Congress—once again Michael Isikoff | January 29 Newsweek Web Exclusive Fielding Letter to Rove Commentary from MyDD And is this why he didn't bother issuing pardons to Libby, etc?

Executive privilege forever
Political Animal — ... about the Bush administration's Justice Department scandals. So, might Rove stop by the Hill to answer lawmakers' questions? Not if the former president and his lawyers have anything to do with it . Just four days before he left office, President Bush instructed former White House aide Karl Rove to refuse to cooperate with future congressional inquiries into alleged misconduct during his administration. On Jan. 16, 2009, then White House Counsel Fred Fielding ...

David Latt: Bush Punk'd Us Again
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Michael Isikoff reported for Newsweek that while many of us were fomenting about Bush preemptively pardoning at-risk members of his administration, he and his lawyer Fred Fielding (White House Counsel) were concocting one last expansion of executive privilege. Four days before he left office, Mr. Bush authorized Fielding to write letters to Harriet Miers and Karl Rove giving them "absolute immunity" from Congressional inquiry and prosecution. Preemptively. In perpetuity. Absolute and irrevocable. ...

Bush lawyer directs Rove not to talk to Congress—once again
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... from testifying before Congress—even after his term has expired. "To my knowledge, these (letters) are unprecedented," said Peter Shane, an Ohio State University law professor who specializes in executive-privilege issues. "I'm aware of no sitting president that has tried to give an insurance policy to a former employee in regard to post-administration testimony." Shane likened the letter to Rove as an attempt to give his former aide a 'get-out-of-contempt-free card'." Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/id/182240

Mikey Isikoff’s Old Lovers Cite New Privileges
Firedoglake — ... and Isikoff's super secret legal source--Dick Cheney's lawyer. And now Rove and Isikoff's super secret "White House source," Rove's lawyer. (h/t ...

Larisa Alexandrovna: What did the President know and when did he know it? Karl Rove knows...
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... According to Rove, 4 days before Bush left office, White House Council Fred Fielding issued a letter telling Rove not to honor a Congressional subpoena. Fielding is essentially advising a former client of his to break the law. It is one thing to advise that Rove may not answer certain questions or any questions for that matter. It is a whole other matter to actually advise his client not show up when subpoenaed. What authority does Fred Fielding claim he has in order to advise his client to break the law? Is Fielding being told by President Bush to advise Rove in this manner? In ...

VIDEO - Nadler: 'Rove Will Testify or Go to Jail'
The BRAD BLOG — ... In the meantime, Newsweek is reporting that, just four days before leaving office, Bush's legal counsel sent a letter on White House stationery instructing Rove "that the President continues to direct him not to provide information (whether in the form of testimony or documents) to the Congress in this matter." ...

Executive Privilege Today, Executive Privilege Tomorrow, Executive Privilege Forever
Hit & Run — Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports that just a few days before leaving the White House, President George W. Bush sent a very interesting letter to former aide Karl Rove: ...

Rove: It’s ‘dangerous to give Congress information.’
Think Progress — ... give Congress information. Watch it: To clarify, Congress did not “leak” details of the secret program. The Wall Street Journal cited “former intelligence officials familiar with the matter” in its report. But Rove’s comment seems to confirm the Bush administration’s motives for routinely attempting to hide information from Congress. Transcript: O’REILLY: ...

Karl Rove advocates breaking the law when it comes to the CIA and Congress
Crooks and Liars — ... information from Congress. Rove lies about what happened when the facts are clear as a bell. And he conveniently forgets that the Bush administration leaked the name of a CIA operative named Valerie Plame just to smear her husband Joe Wilson because he told the truth about their lies. Here's a newsflash to this pompous ass: The ...