"When NBC's Kelly O'Donnell asked the president last week if he'd
authorized the high-ranking goon squading of Ashcroft, he refused to
answer the question. Twice. Isn't that something Congress should be
looking into?" --Arianna Huffington
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Fox News just calls the truth a lie and almost 50%% of the
electorate...maybe 70%% of the RED states..say "...(Fox says it's a
lie, it must be a lie)..."...Shame on the USA electorate for being so
shallow.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/congress-needs-to-find-ou_b_49070...
Arianna Huffington
05.22.2007
Congress Needs to Find Out: Did Bush Order Gonzales and Card to Put
the Squeeze on Ashcroft?
In today's L.A. Times, Jonah Goldberg discusses the "redemption" of
John Ashcroft and fantasizes that the same image rehab may one day
happen for George Bush. Talk about your Extreme Make-Over!
I'll save the discussion of the validity of Ashcroft's "hero" status
for another day -- although it speaks volumes about the extent the
Bush administration has defined deviancy downward that acting to
protect the Constitution instead of undermining it is seen as a heroic
act of courage, and a sign of remarkable integrity.
The problem with Goldberg's piece is that it shifts the focus away
from where it should be: finding out who sent Vito and Big Pussy -- I
mean, Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card -- to Ashcroft's sick bed to try
to pressure him into reauthorizing aspects of the NSA wiretap program
the acting Attorney General didn't think were legal.
Was it the president? James Comey, the former acting AG in question,
testified that Bush called Ashcroft's wife to get Vito and Pussy --
sorry, Gonzales and Card -- into the ICU. So he was clearly in on the
plan -- if not leading the plan -- to maneuver around the Comey
roadblock by trying to get a deathly-ill man to sign off on his spy
program. When NBC's Kelly O'Donnell asked the president last week if
he'd authorized the high-ranking goon squading of Ashcroft, he refused
to answer the question. Twice. Isn't that something Congress should be
looking into?
Sure, a vote of no confidence against Gonzales is richly deserved.
Hell, the impeachment of Gonzalez is richly deserved. But the real
story is whether the president actively flouted the law and the
Constitution in order to keep the more damning aspects of the NSA
program under wraps. Aspects that remain hidden to this day.
So let's not get distracted by the rehab of John Ashcroft
