-- GENERAL HOSPITAL - I.C.U. --

More on the Ashcroft-incapacitation-exploitation, in March 2004... Bush, desperate to continue his illegal domest spying program.
I wonder why (monitoring John Kerry's calls?).
The Wednesday Night Ambush in 2004...

No one is asking Mr. Bush to talk about classified information, and no one is discounting the terrorist threat. But there is a serious question here about how far Mr. Bush went to pressure his lawyers to implement his view of the law. There is an even more serious question about the president's willingness, that effort having failed, to go beyond the bounds of what his own Justice Department found permissible.
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The president would like to make this unpleasant controversy disappear behind the national-security curtain. That cannot be allowed to happen. [END]