How Deep Is the Conspiracy?

With hard core Leftists going on about how the White House is deviously planning to write the Petraeus report on Iraq (and other Leftists covering their bases by saying that Petraeus can't be trusted to write the report), Blackfive notes what I wrote about earlier. Says Blackfive:

There has been some talk in the press and on the blogs that suggests the White House intends to tamper with -- or simply write -- General Petraeus' assessment to Congress. In a discussion today with a DOD Legislative Affairs expert, we got the truth.

Congress itself mandated by law who will assemble each of the several reports due in September. It also, separately, mandated that General Petraeus be available to testify to them at this time.

Public Law 110-28 specifes that "the President, having consulted with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Commander, Multi-National Forces-Iraq, the United States Ambassador to Iraq, and the Commander of U.S. Central Command, will prepare the report and submit the report to Congress."

Yet another entry in the Pantheon of Plastic Turkey Issues.

So either another conspiracy fantasy is way off the mark--or perhaps the conspiracy is really, really, good. Just where is Rove, anyway?