Unethical revenge by Rove would not surprise his poli-sci prof
SALT LAKE CITY -- When the dean of Utah political scientists, J.D. Williams, retired from the classroom, he received a note from his most famous student -- Karl Rove. In the 1992 letter to the die-hard Democrat, Rove wrote, "My career has been to fight for causes and candidates I'm certain you disapprove of, but I am equally confident that you approve of my being in the fight." Rove, who considers Williams to be one of his first political mentors, may have been a little overly confident. Williams believes President Bush's top adviser and famed GOP mastermind failed to grasp one of the two key lessons he was taught at the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics. One: Participate in politics. Two: Do so in a decent and honorable way. "Karl Rove magnificently fulfilled the first goal," Williams says. "He never learned the second part of the message." ...."And Williams says he is "certain" that Rove played a vital role in outing the covert CIA agent Valerie Plame as retribution for criticism of the White House by her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Rove remains under investigation for his role in the leak".
