Rove talked to Dobson about Miers nomination?
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to know whether presidential adviser Karl Rove privately assured a conservative activist of how Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would rule on the court.
Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said he will would look into a statement by James Dobson, president of the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based advocacy group Focus on the Family, that Dobson has had ``conversations'' with Rove about the woman nominated to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and knows things about Miers ``that I probably shouldn't know.''
``The Senate Judiciary Committee is entitled to know whatever the White House knew,'' Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on ABC's ``This Week'' program. ``If Dr. Dobson knows something that he shouldn't know or something that I ought to know, I'm going to find out.''
Dobson made a mistake when he said he had inside information, and the way he said it makes it worse. Miers options for dodging that question are limited if she is on record as having talked to the White House about the issue.
It will be interesting to see just how much Specter is willing to push this issue. Theoretically he could subpoena Dobson or Rove to force them to talk about what was said.
Jay