I think most of us saw this one coming a mile away. So the White House insisted that there was no involvement on their end about firing all 93 US attorneys, that it was all Harriet Miers’ idea. Apparently, and what a surprise it is, that’s not quite the case.

New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show that the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by White House adviser Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than the White House previously acknowledged.

The e-mails also show that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales discussed the idea of firing the attorneys en masse weeks before he was confirmed as attorney general.

The e-mails directly contradict White House assertions that the notion originated with recently departed White House counsel Harriet Miers, and was her idea alone.

It seems like a good rule of thumb that whenever a scandal breaks out, if the White House insists that they had no involvement in it, they probably did. I’m curious what the ratio is on that one.