Head of Rove Inquiry in Hot Seat Himself

Wall Street Journal (no subscription) ^ | November 28, 2007 | John R. Wilke

[FormerACLUmember]

Democrat party operative under investigation. Runs like a cockroach from the light. Bush’s biggest failure was his refusal to purge the government of these internal democrat party enemies.

[gusopol3]

how do you know he’s D? Just because he’s from Lawrence, like Madison, Wisconsin or Ithaca NY?

[sure_fine]

so he is boarding up his glass house

[AlaskaErik]

Geeks on Call?! I prefer using the Nerd Herd myself.

[calcowgirl]

Scott Bloch was a Bush appointee.

[doodad]

And how did Geeks on Call get access and clearance to even look at this computer?

[Glenn]

and enforcing a ban on federal employees engaging in partisan political activity

Best of luck with that part of the job.

[doodad]

I kind of like it. We could reduce the government down to maybe Constitutionally mandated levels.

[Timeout]

The total charge [for Geeks on Call] was $1,149, paid with an agency credit card, the receipt shows.

That's the part that makes me sick. All those fed employees with their own personal credit card. Obviously, they're not required to get preapproval before charging $1000+. Whatever they can self-justify...just charge it.

[Edit35]

Scott Bloch was a Bush appointee.

Bush's biggest problems arose when he hired these wishy washy 'moderate' types... in the mistaken belief their 'progressive' positions would endear Bush to OTHER moderates and Democrats.

Think: Colin Powell, Harriet Myers, Scott McClellan, etc.

All ended up becoming wimps and turncoats.

Well, not so much Harriet Myers -- but she was AWFUL anyway.

[SueRae]

A fox smells his own hole. Priceless

[BluH2o]

Mr. Bloch said no documents relevant to any investigation were affected. He also says the employee claims against him are unwarranted.

It's the appearance of impropriety that's at stake here ... how many times do gov't types have to learn that lesson?

[zip]

ping

[Thrownatbirth]

Jeff Phelps, who runs Washington's Geeks on Call franchise, declined to talk about specific clients, but said calls placed directly by government officials are unusual.

That's good that Jeff won't lose much business because I can practically write the gov't memo that's coming out in my head.

[freekitty]

I agree.

[Raycpa]

If you want to delete damaging files from your computer call an outside contractor to come in and do it for you. Yep, sounds suspicious to me.

[ReignOfError]

Democrat party operative

He's a Bush appointee, and before his current gig was appointed to head up faith-based initiatives in the DoJ. He's under fire for allegedly failing to investigate discrimination claims by gat federal employees. Where are you getting the idea that he's a Democratic party operative?

[knarf]

"Bush’s biggest failure was his refusal to purge the government of these internal democrat party enemies."

We were all SO waiting for something to happen after President Bush was inaugurated, but nothing seemed to develope ... I guess we were in a 'winding down from the high because it's the same old/same old' when we were viciously attacked by an insidious enemy.

[doodad]

In my workplace that would get you fired. I assume this person won’t even get a sharply worded letter in his file.

And $1200 for disk erasure??????? Please! Either there is more here than being told (ahem) or Geeks has a very healthy labor rate.