Under a cloud of secrecy, Karl Rove was deposed by John Conyer's House Judiciary committee, a few weeks after Harriet Meiers under the radar June 15th deposition.

Yesterday, Tuesday, Karl Rove faced John Conyers and the House Judiciary COmmittee behind closed doors. The NY Times reports he was interviewed. AP reports

that he was deposed.

Politico reports "Roves deposition began at 10 a.m. and ended around 6:30 p.m, with

several breaks, Conyers said."

So, apparently, it was a deposition, not an interview.

The goal of the deposition was to probe further into the firing of nine US attorneys. Previously, the Bush White House, claiming executive privilege, had blocked any questioning.

POlitico also reported,

Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, declined to confirm or deny that his client had appeared before the committee. Luskin

said there was an agreement that the

depositions would remain confidential until they were completed. However, in a court filing Monday, the Justice Department indicated that the deposition set

for this week would be the committee's last.

That gibes with this reporters efforts. Several months ago, I spoke with one of John Conyer's legal team members who was supposed to be on the Rove

questioning team. When I spoke to him today, he said he was not involved and gave me the name of another senior Conyers staffer. I spoke to this senior

staffer who was con-committal, not even confirming that there had been an interview or deposition. He did say that when the process was finished, we'd get

more information.

Then I noticed, in the Politico report, that Harriet Meiers had been deposed in June. Checking Google News, there was surprisingly little to be found on what

should have been major news. The Meiers deposition flew almost totally under the radar, with brief mentions from Fox News, Alternet and Law.com.

I called back to the House Judiciary committee senior spokesperson. Again, no confirmation. Apparently, the two depositions of Meiers and Rove, with the possible addition of former White House lawyer William Kelley, are part of a deal, which includes terms that the depositions will not be discussed, not even confirmation that they occurred, until they are finished. When will they be finished? No answer there either.

One has to ask some additional questions that won't be easily answered. Now that Rahm Emanuel is White House chief of staff, and we're seeing his rough and tough, hard-ass approach to the job, clearly more aggressive than Rove's softer touch, could it be that behind the scenes, Emanuel is protecting HIS president's executive privilege and for that reason, behind the scenes, protecting Rove and Meiers? Such machinations would not be outside the range of the possible in the land of smoke and mirrors.

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