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The White House should have stepped up and said precisely what Rove's involvement was as soon as this controversy began. Now, after two years or so of slogging, it can't help but appear that Rove was involved in some sort of wrongdoing, even if he in fact did nothing wrong.

I have to agree here. If nothing else, it smacks of Clinton-era parsing of the truth.

Then again, once the investigation is over, we may find out that Rove had a very minor role in the whole thing. Only time will tell.

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I expect Rove will be found to have done nothing illegal. It appears that he was trying to prevent Cooper from making a factual error in a story Cooper was writing. As you say, only time will tell.