Karl Christian Rove is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush.
Rove's election campaign clients have included Bush , Senator John Ashcroft, Bill Clements, John Cornyn, Rick Perry, and Phil Gramm.
Karl Rove has appeared five times before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of the name of a CIA operative. Close ties to corrupt Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Forced to give up his role as senior policy coordinator at the White House in April 2006. Rove originally failed to disclose to prosecutors that he had talked to Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper about the outed CIA operative, Valerie Plame, back in 2003. Months before Rove acknowledged speaking to Cooper about the CIA status of Plame, reporter Robert Novak told Rove's lawyer the Rove might have disclosed Plame's CIA work to Cooper.
Sued in federal court on July 13, 2006, along with vice-president Dick Cheney by CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former US ambassador accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career.
