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(8,998 posts)"Comey Breaks Silence: White House Tried To Force Incapacitated Ashcroft To Back Spying Program
thinkprogress on May 15, 2007 at 1:16 pm
March 2004, President Bushs warrantless domestic spying efforts were temporarily suspended after then-acting Attorney General James Comey refused to sign on to an extension of the program amid concerns about its legality and oversight.
Today, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Comey detailed the extraordinary and potentially illegal efforts made by Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card then White House counsel and chief of staff, respectively to attempt to force John Ashcroft to overrule Comey, despite the fact that Ashcroft was debilitated in a hospital with pancreatitis." -snip-
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/05/15/12881/comey-silence/
This actually IS genius. Who better to address the very issues plaguing the Administration, politics, and the post 9/11 mindset. The confirmation hearings (assuming there are any) ought to bring this to light again.