Pot v. Kettle

Glen Greenwald dug up a 2003 State Department report deploring human and civil rights violations in Russia. He bullet-points eleven serious issues, including "lengthy pretrial detentions," torture (noting, "Allegations of torture are difficult to substantiate because of lack of access by medical professionals and because the techniques used often leave few or no permanent physical traces"), violations of due process, concentration of media ownership (!), and warrantless wiretapping and surveillance.

Then, in an update, he quotes a portion of the report:

The law states that officials may enter a private residence only in cases prescribed by federal law or on the basis of a judicial decision; however, authorities did not always observe these provisions.

The law permits the government to monitor correspondence, telephone conversations, and other means of communication only with judicial permission and prohibits the collection, storage, utilization, and dissemination of information about a person's private life without his consent. While these provisions were generally followed, problems remained. There were accounts of electronic surveillance by government officials and others without judicial permission, and of entry into residences and other premises by Moscow law enforcement without warrants. There were no reports of government action against officials who violated these safeguards.

Hmmm, the report came out in 2001. Maybe Rove thought it was a how-to manual, rather than an admonition.