Ashcroft "General Hospital" episode was Directed by Dick Cheney... IMPEACH Alberto Gonzales - New York Times.

--UPDATE 7/29: JOHN ASHCROFT'S MEMORY IS UNRELIABLE, HE WAS HEAVILY MEDICATED, HALF-AWAKE, & IN-AND-OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- That's why Cheney sent 'em: Andy Card and Al Gonzales... [Bush & Condi weren't there -- that's the morphine!]END UPDATE--

Dick Cheney ordered the thugs to the Hospital, in 2004, to exploit the drugged & incpacitated John Ashcroft? Wan't it assumed it was the president? Oh, well...

NYT, Editorial:

"Mr. Gonzales’s Never-Ending Story"

President Bush often insists
(he's) the decider -
ignoring Congress,
and the public...
(and common-sense)

Americans have been waiting months (or years) for Mr. Bush to fire Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who long ago proved that he was incompetent and more recently has proved that he can’t tell the truth. (An Affimative Action mistake?) Mr. Bush refused to fire him after it was clear Mr. Gonzales lied about his role in the political purge of nine federal prosecutors. And he is still refusing to do so — even after testimony by the F.B.I. director, Robert Mueller, that suggests that Mr. Gonzales either lied to Congress about Mr. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping operation or at the very least twisted the truth so badly that it amounts to the same thing.

Mr. Gonzales ("Pepe") has now told Congress twice that there was no dissent in the government about Mr. Bush’s (unprecedented, secret) decision to authorize the National Security Agency to spy on Americans... ...that is not true...

(W)hen Mr. Gonzales was still the White House counsel — the Justice Department refused to endorse a continuation of the wiretapping program because it was illegal. (Mr. Comey was running the department temporarily because Attorney General John Ashcroft had emergency surgery.) Unwilling to accept that conclusion, Vice President Dick Cheney sent Mr. Gonzales and another official to (a heavily-medicated and barely lucid) Mr. Ashcroft’s hospital room (to take advantage of him.) to get him to approve the (illegal) wiretapping...
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...Mr. Gonzales is more concerned about doing political-damage control for Mr. Bush — in this case insisting that there was never a Justice Department objection to a clearly illegal program — than in doing his duty. ("DERELICTION OF DUTY") But the White House continued to defend him.
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Democratic lawmakers are asking for a special prosecutor to look into Mr. Gonzales’s words and deeds. Solicitor General Paul Clement has a last chance to show that the Justice Department is still minimally functional by fulfilling that request.

If that does not happen, Congress should impeach Mr. Gonzales. -END-