Why should it just have been U.S. Attorneys? Or the General Services Administration?
Yes, Karl Rove — who, the White House has insisted for years, isn’t involved in foreign policy — instructed his White House deputies to repeatedly brief State Department officials and U.S. ambassadors in key foreign missions about GOP electoral priorities. The push to enlist U.S. embassies into the service of Rove’s dream of a permanent Republican majority, according to today’s Washington Post, has been a feature of the last six years. They involved the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Peace Corps. Needless to say, all are expected to be non-political agencies.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180315