Cheney on Trip to Ashcroft's Hospital Bedside: "I Don't Recall"

[babsbunny]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003825.php

From Dick Cheney's interview tonight with Larry King:

Q In that regard, The New York Times -- which, as you said, is not your favorite -- reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the President's intelligence-gathering program. Was it you?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I don't recall -- first of all, I haven't seen the story. And I don't recall that I gave instructions to that effect.

Q That would be something you would recall.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: I would think so. But certainly I was involved because I was a big advocate of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, and had been responsible and working with General Hayden and George Tenet to get it to the President for approval. By the time this occurred, it had already been approved about 12 times by the Department of Justice. There was nothing new about it.

[sarcasmo]

1. If I remember correct, wasn't that Ollie Norths line during Iran/Contra?

[Skittles]

4. and Reagan's during his whole presidency

lying bastards, all of them

[vixengrl]

2. Please--the weirdly "urgent, let's see the groggy AG" thing

feels like a cloak and dagger, kind of "gangster" Cheney touch. The dagger that reminds one that you are "in this thing".

(Note to Cheney--send a card. Kick in for flowers or a fruit basket. Don't send co-workers with crap from the office.)

I still want to know where the NYT got that, though...

[Clintonista2]

3. Amnesia seems to be going around lately. nt.

[Spirochete]

5. Well, that's certainly original ...

:eyes: