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May 15, 2007

I Have An Idea . . .

S
o exactly whose idea was it to go to then-AG John Ashcroft's hospital room to get him -- while drugged and sick -- to override acting AG Jim Comey's veto on the president's domestic spying program? Exactly who was in on that conversation?

[Shades of the Life Cereal commercial from the mid-'70s starring Mikey, the kid who'd eat anything: "I have an idea, let's get Ashcroft to sign it; people in the hospital half out of their minds in pain will sign anything."]

The background is here, thanks to Marty Lederman.

But just exactly who in the White House was sitting around with Gonzales and Card before going to the hospital?

Posted by shertaugh at May 15, 2007 5:12 PM

Comments

I speculated on the prior post, might as well speculate here. This reeks of Cheney pushing Bush to do it, or Bush having a fit and saying "go get Johnny boy to sign it" (or both, I suppose).

Posted by: Ugh at May 15, 2007 6:32 PM

you know they've been covering that on air america radio for months, right?

Posted by: jenny at May 15, 2007 6:34 PM

And why did Tony Snow claim that this occurred while Ashcroft was in the hospital with "appendicitis" rather than a critical pancreatic infection? Appendicitis and the accompanying general anesthesia can be dangerous enough for anyone, but the pancreatic infection Ashcroft had would have been fatal if he had put off going to the hospital for another few hours and had him in a coma for several days as it was.

Cranky

Posted by: Cranky Observer at May 16, 2007 11:00 AM