Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., confirmed Rove's closed-door appearance.
The committee has been seeking answers on who created the list of federal prosecutors who would lose their jobs. Conyers beleives the trail will lead to the White House. Former President George W. Bush asserted executive privilege for Rove and another White House lawyer, Harriet Miers.
An agreement was struck in March between Rove's lawyer and the committee for Rove, who was Bush's top political adviser, to testify on the prosecutors' firings, as well as the prosecution of former Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama. Siegelman bleives that his prosecution was pushed by Republicans.
The agreement called for Rove to testify "under the penalty for perjury."
Nine U.S. attorneys were fired. An internal Bush Justice Department investigation concluded that political considerations played a part in at least four of the dismissals. Monica Goodling, a US government lawyer, used a secret conservative network to replace the fired attorneys with right wing attorneys.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/07/rove-deposed-in-us-attorn_n_227468.html
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