Comey Breaks Silence: White House Tried To Force Ashcroft To Back Spying

thinkprogress.org — 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 pancreatiti May 15, 2007 View in Crawl 4