Slog - Comments on Presidential Potboiler http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler We've mentioned this a couple of times in the last two days, but if you haven't heard the story of the late-night hospital visit, the blaring sirens, and the attempt to get an ailing John Ashcroft to sign off on Bush's domestic spying program, here's the video:... Copyright 2008 Wed, 16 May 2007 12:58:53 -0800 Sat, 19 May 2007 03:43:12 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Jonathan This is as important as the revelations about firing US attorney's because they refused to improperly attempt to affect the 2006 elections by baselessly indicting Democrats shortly before the election.

Here, a former acting Attorney General

That is: The President conspired to commit fraud with Alberto Gonzalez and Andrew Card.

Then, when the DoJ's approval of the program could not be obtained, the President himself reauthorized the illegal program.

That is: The President knowingly and willfully broke the law and authorized a program of illegal domestic surveillance. Each act of unlawful domestic surveillance is a felony.

These are impeachable, criminal offenses.

]]> Jonathan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718124 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718124 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 13:59:40 -0800 Comment by Jonathan That should read: Here, an acting Attorney General, James Comey, has testified that the President ordered his chief of staff, Andrew Card, and his White House counsel, Alberto Gonzalez, to attempt to obtain the signature of Attorney General Ashcroft from his bed in the intensive care unit of a Washington hospital for a program of illegal domestic spying and wiretapping. The Card and Gonzalez knew that the DOJ had already concluded that the program was illegal and Comey had refused to authorize it.

]]> Jonathan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718129 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718129 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 14:03:50 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Why oh why do the Red Bushies hate America and our American values of Truth, Justice, and Privacy so?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718137 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718137 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 14:10:33 -0800 Comment by Sstarr John Ashcroft is ... my ... hero?
(Here the commenter's head explodes due to the impossibility of what he just wrote.)

]]> Sstarr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718168 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718168 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 14:57:11 -0800 Comment by Jonathan Yeah. You know it's *bad* when it puts "Eagle Soars" Ashcroft on the side of the angels.

]]> Jonathan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718175 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718175 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 15:04:23 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew The sickest thing about this is that they’re all going to get away with it. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Feith, Gonzales - every one of them is the worst of the worst and they’ll never have to pay for their crimes.

Instead, they can look forward to endless speaking gigs, seven figure book deals, and jobs in the liberal academia that they profess to hate where they’ll train the next generation of sociopaths who’ll be a thousand times worse.

And now that the Dems have taken impeachment off the table, there’s not a damn thing that anyone can legally do about it.

How’d ya like them apples?

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718193 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718193 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 15:26:59 -0800 Comment by SDA in SEA It definitely says something when (covering the boobs of Justice) (author of the "Patriot" Act) Ashcroft comes off as the good guy.

]]> SDA in SEA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718210 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718210 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 15:40:49 -0800 Comment by Endless Enema All I can think of is a medical solution to this problem....

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]]> Endless Enema http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718249 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718249 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 16:13:22 -0800 Comment by brie I can't believe how filmic this sounds.

What I find really striking/frightening is the image of Comey, the two justice dept officials, and Mrs. Ashcroft surrounding Ashcroft to protect him from Gonzales and Card.

And Clinton was impeached for lying about a blowjob. Good call, America.

]]> brie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718297 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718297 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 17:15:19 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, we have a new LOW for this administration (and only because we now KNOW about this one)...

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718303 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/presidential_potboiler#c718303 Politics Wed, 16 May 2007 17:27:23 -0800 Comment by monpvx ntecrdwa gsuzoaw mvqkoy ykdrh uahxink rfsceui hftqgpvu iarxp

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