Karl Rove and the White House Iraq Group. Newsweek's Howard Finemand and Mike Isikoff in February 2005:

...Rove was a player on Iraq, too. In the run-up to the war, Rove was a full—and, colleagues say, impressive—participant in the colorfully named WHIG (White House Iraq Group). The panel members shed their cell phones and BlackBerrys to meet in a secure National Security Council conference room, sifting through classified evidence (much of it now discredited) for data that might win public support for Bush's hard line against Saddam Hussein. Rove seemed to come into the room knowing more than his political brief, said a fellow WHIG. "He'd say, 'I've got a feeling' about something, and he was usually right." ...

Posted by Laura at October 12, 2005 11:03 AM