Texas lawyer fired for telling the truth

This is how Bush loyalists insure loyalty above all else. Anyone who dares breach the wall of secrecy is simply silenced.

A staff attorney with the Texas secretary of state said yesterday that she was fired this week for violating press protocols when she spoke to a Washington Post reporter who was working on a story about presidential adviser Karl Rove.

Elizabeth Reyes, 30, of Austin said she was fired Tuesday after she was quoted in a Post story that ran Sept. 3 about tax deductions on Rove's homes in the District and in Texas.

If the story hadn't been about Rove, no one would have noticed. But if you out Bush's Architect, even inadvertently, the walls of your career will come tumbling down and bury you in oblivion.