TPM: President Bush refuses to answer whether he ordered Card, Gonzales to Ashcroft's bedside

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014199.php

Video up at the above link. A must watch!

(May 17, 2007 -- 03:08 PM EDT)

President Bush refuses to answer whether he ordered Card and Gonzales to Ashcroft's hospital bedside ...

The funny thing about this dodge is that the president is saying not only that the nature of the program is highly classified and must be kept secret, which may be true, but that his apparent order for Gonzales and Card to go squeeze the semi-concsious John Ashcroft is also highly classified and must be kept secret. Somehow I just don't get that one. The president's refusal to answer tells the tale. The president gave the order and even placed the call, as James Comey all but told us yesterday.

But it should not surprise us because this White House has mainly used 'classification' as a way to keep embarrassing information out of public view.

-- Josh Marshall

[WCGreen]

1. I did not have clandestine relations with those men.....

[indypaul]

2. Both are just like Ollie North

none of them would go to the bathroom without
permission from their superior. The "answer"
is irrelevant only the question needed to be asked.
The Dim One doesn't have to give an answer.

[whistle]

3. Let's get the congressional oversight committee to issue a subpoena

...to get Bush to come and testify.