The part of the above excerpt following the “snip” tells you all you need to know about this story.
The whole story is horse manure, developed only to generate the headline.
I’m still waiting for the Washington Post’s expose’s on Vince Foster Gate, Web Hubbel Gate, Travelgate, Filegate, Campaign Finance Gate, Chinagate, etc., etc.
Retaining that scumbag Comey was one of the biggest blunders the Bush Administration made.
This article is inane. It reads like a cartoon.
The guy wasn’t even there but his notes about what someone else said that someone else said puts this article on a par with a witness from the grassy knoll with the smoking man from area 51 who saw Jack Ruby try to kill Castro on orders from unnamed secret government officals.
so what.
Wonder if anyone has thought to ask Ashcroft?
Read the following. It will probably make you angry for the rest of the day.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1834122/posts
It starts out like this, but you have to read the entire article:
Gonzales pressed ailing Ashcroft on domestic spying plan, official testifies
International Herald Tribune ^ | Tuesday, May 15 2007 | David Stout
Posted on 05/15/2007 3:00:51 PM PDT by James W. Fannin
WASHINGTON: On the night of March 10, 2004, a high-ranking Justice Department official rushed to a Washington hospital to prevent two White House aides from taking advantage of the critically ill Attorney General, John Ashcroft, the official testified on Tuesday.
One of those aides was Alberto Gonzales, who was then White House counsel and eventually succeeded Ashcroft as Attorney General.
“I was very upset,” said James Comey, who was deputy Attorney General at the time, in his testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I was angry. I thought I had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man, who did not have the powers of the attorney general because they had been transferred to me.”
<...much more follows>
Gonzales is a despicable person and should have been run out of town a long time ago.
I'm guessing Comey lied to Mueller about what Ashcroft said or he would not have blocked the others from having access to Ashcroft.
March 10, 2004 : (GONZALES AND ANDY CARD COME TO MEET WITH ASHCROFT IN THE HOSPITAL BUT COMEY HAD GOTTEN THERE FIRST) “Saw AG,” Mueller writes in his notes for 8:10 p.m. on March 10, 2004, only minutes after Gonzales and White House chief of staff Andrew H. Card Jr. had visited Ashcroft. “Janet Ashcroft in the room. AG in chair; is feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed.” …[which disagrees with Gonzales’ version of his Ashcroft meeting that Ashcroft was “lucid” and “did most of the talking.”]
Deputy AG Comey made sure then that no one but Ashcroft’s family could visit the hospital to prevent Gonzales and Card from returning to discuss matters with Ashcroft.
Interesting timing...
MARCH 11, 2004 : (SUSAN LINDHAUER) the day after this dust up between Mueller/Comey and Gonzales/Andy Card...two news outlets [CBS and NBC] on March 11 2004 make a point of associating the recently arrested Democrat Susan Lindhauer [who met with Iraqi spies] not with the Democratic Party but with her distant cousin Andy Card.
A little vindictive leak by Comey to the press, perhaps? A threat using the crazy cousin to reveal more embarrassing material?