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John Ashcroft: The First and a Quarter Kind of Loyalty

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Like PD Dude, I noted the attempted John Ashcroft sickbed hustle by Alberto Gonzales (then White House counsel) and Andrew Card. (then White House Chief of Staff) The short story is that the acting Attorney General, James Comey, would not sign off on the legality of the NSA's domestic spying program, so the White House sent Gonzales and Card to Ashcroft's hospital room to try to get Ashcroft to sign off on the reauthorization of the program.Ashcroft did not sign the papers and told Card and Gonzales that Comey was the AG. The White House reauthorized the domestic spying program anyway. After Ashcroft got better, the program was reauthorized with the AG's approval. Allegedly there were some changes to the program, but those changes have not been revealed by anyone...continue to full post

Full post as published by Gideon’s Guardians on June 06, 2007 (boomark / email).

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