Axelrod To Bush Advisers: Butt Out

David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, had harsh words for some of former President Bush's closest advisers during an interview with the Post's Lois Romano yesterday, dismissing as "intramural stuff" the critiques offered by the former Administration.
Axelrod praised Bush for his handling of the transition while sharply criticizing some of the former president's advisers.
Axelrod said he was "disappointed" by former Vice President Dick Cheney's comments regarding the planned closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and the suggestion that it would increase the likelihood of a terrorist attack; he described himself as "surprised" by former White House chief of staff Andy Card's remark that not wearing a jacket in the Oval Office was disrespectful.
But, Axelrod saved his strongest condemnation for the man who held his job in the Bush White House: Karl Rove. Of Rove's criticism of Obama's economic stimulus plan, Axelrod said: "The last thing that I think we are looking for at this juncture is advice on fiscal integrity or ethics from Karl Rove -- anyone who's read the newspapers for the last eight years would laugh at that."
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Olbermann to Rove: Newsflash! 'You guys leaked like hell'

While speaking to an audience at Loyola Marymount University the other week, former Bush adviser Karl Rove expressed his belief that government leaks to the media can cause serious damage.

On Wednesday's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann told viewers, "Karl Rove is still talking. The creator of the impermanent Republican majority, the possessor of the math that did not add up, telling an audience at Loyola Marymount University in L.A. that government leaks to the media can cause serious harm and newspapers should not run them. And he never did."

"Quote, 'the Bush White House was criticized for being tight lipped,'" Olbermann continued. "'We didn‘t leak. Secrecy and confidentiality are necessary for every government, especially when you‘re at war,' he scolded."

Olbermann went to town on what he perceived as Rove's hypocrisy.

"So why didn‘t you practice that?" Olbermann asked. "You guys leaked like hell. You and your minions leaked the name of a CIA op, ironically one devoted to countering weapons of mass destruction, while you were starting up a war supposedly designed neutralize weapons of mass destruction. By the way, the quote/unquote leak you‘re still whining about, the 'New York Times' revealing that you and your fellow future convicts had arranged to illegally eavesdrop on many, most or all Americans, and maybe some people who might have had tangential connections to terrorism, maybe, that leak came from somewhere in your government, Karl.

" Olbermann then accused Rove of "doing the same things to Americans that the terrorists want to do to Americans." LinkHere