"What Rove appears to have done was something half of the Clinton White House was doing almost every day to Republicans on the Hill if we got the chance," says a Washington lobbyist who worked at 1600 during Clinton's first term. "We pushed gossip about Newt [Gingrich]; we badmouthed Grover [Norquist]; we did what we thought they were doing to us."
And of course, they pushed stories and story leads. "I just don't see what -- beyond their screwing with Rove -- this accomplishes. And I gotta believe that there are people on our side pushing this thing, and if they are, it's not smart," say the former Clinton staffer. "This kind of thing has a way of biting you on the ass. That 60 Minutes II story on Bush's military record should be on everyone's mind right now. I don't think the media wants anyone looking into how they develop stories, and this is where this Rove thing is going."
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