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Book Tells Of Dissent In Bush's Inner Circle; White House Granted Author Unusual Access
2007
Overview
In \"Dead Certain: The Presidency of [George W. Bush],\" journalist Robert Draper writes that [Karl Rove] told Bush he should not tap [Richard B. Cheney] for the Republican ticket: \"Selecting Daddy's top foreign-policy guru ran counter to message. It was worse than a safe pick -- it was needy.\" But Bush did not care -- he was comfortable with Cheney and \"saw no harm in giving his VP unprecedented run of the place.\" Rove, meanwhile, was not happy, Draper writes, with [Joshua B. Bolten]'s decision to strip him of his oversight of policy at the White House, directing his focus instead to politics and the coming midterm elections. Bolten noticed that other staffers were \"intimidated\" by Rove, and Rove was seen as doing too much, \"freelancing, insinuating himself into the message world . . . parachuting into Capitol Hill whenever it suited him.\" In the CIA leak scandal, Rove assured Bush, Draper reports, that he had known nothing about Valerie Plame, a CIA operative whose covert status was revealed by administration officials to reporters after Plame's husband criticized the administration's case for war in Iraq. \"When Bush learned otherwise,\" he said, \"he hit the roof.\"
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WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post
