JOHN W. DEAN Karl Rove Is Betting He Can Avoid Publicly Disclosing His Role In the Bush Administration's Firing Of Independent-Minded U. S. Attorneys—But He May Be Wrong FindLaw columnist and former counsel to the president John Dean explains the current situation regarding Karl Rove, President Bush's former adviser, and the pending and past Congressional subpoenas seeking Rove's testimony with respect to the scandal over the Bush Administration's political firings of a series of U.S. Attorneys. With both the Senate Judiciary Committee and Special Counsel Nora Dannehy actively investigating the firings, Dean explains, the issue is still a live one. Dean considers the reasons why Rove would cooperate with the grand jury Dannehy has convened, but not with the Judiciary Committee, and explains how the controversy over whether Rove had a role in the firings, and whether he must testify before Congress, may ultimately play out.