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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

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  • Glitchr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Impeachment stuff. Plain and simple.

    He needs approval for his domestic spying program every 45 days. THIS is the great check and balance that King George has bragged about. Who needs courts... Then he goes to get it from acting AG Comey and GWB/Gonzo are denied. THEY TRY AND GO AROUND ACTING AG and get Ashcroft to sign off. Ashy is well enough to tell them to get bent. SO BUSH DOES IT ANYWAY. They get a modified program that was eventually okayed by Comey, but for weeks King George decided he was above the law and did it anyway. Incredible! What further proof do we need. Impeach Abu Gonzales now. Tomorrow we start proceeding GWB. What is left? How else can King George blow off US laws? It is PAST time to hold him accountable.
  • EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7If Congress was ready to impeach Nixon for illegally spying on one innocent American, then why won't they impeach BushCo (all of them) for illegally spying on thousands or perhaps ALL of us ?

    Democrats will not win in '08 if they do not address impeachment. It's that simple.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Damn, and the Administration usually seems so smart...

    http://digg.com/political_opinion/Eloquence_Off_George_Bush_v_Tony_Blair_2
  • EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Well, we either break it, or it breaks us.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4how long till we break the 2 party system?

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