Mrs. Ashcroft - STUCK HER TONGUE OUT - At Gonzales & Card As They Walked Out Of The Room (NYT)

[kpete]

Conscience of a Conservative
Published: September 9, 2007
(Page 7 of 7)



Suddenly, Gonzales and Card came in the room and announced that they were there in connection with the classified program. “Ashcroft, who looked like he was near death, sort of puffed up his chest,” Goldsmith recalls. “All of a sudden, energy and color came into his face, and he said that he didn’t appreciate them coming to visit him under those circumstances, that he had concerns about the matter they were asking about and that, in any event, he wasn’t the attorney general at the moment; Jim Comey was. He actually gave a two-minute speech, and I was sure at the end of it he was going to die. It was the most amazing scene I’ve ever witnessed.”

After a bit of silence, Goldsmith told me, Gonzales thanked Ashcroft, and he and Card walked out of the room. “At that moment,” Goldsmith recalled, “Mrs. Ashcroft, who obviously couldn’t believe what she saw happening to her sick husband, looked at Gonzales and Card as they walked out of the room and stuck her tongue out at them. She had no idea what we were discussing, but this sweet-looking woman sticking out her tongue was the ultimate expression of disapproval. It captured the feeling in the room perfectly.”

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/magazine/09rosen.html?pagewanted=7

[rosesaylavee]

1. I can imagine her frustration and anger...

I think I wouldn't have been as polite...

[cali]

2. wow.

This is one story that ain't goin' away.

[PDittie]

3. For a woman married to John Ashcroft

sticking one's tongue out would have to be the equivalent of throwing double rods at someone. (Which makes me wonder how obscene the gesture of scraping one's index finger across the other is in her world.)

[Bucky]

24. "scraping one's index finger across the other"

This is a shaming action. Obviously it doesn't apply to Gonzales.

[rox63]

4. I'm sure she wanted to do or say much more

But being a "good xtian woman", she held back on her comments.

[DemBones DemBones]

5. Good for her! The nerve of them barging into

a hospital room and harassing a very sick man. :grr:

[ThomWV]

6. Horseshit - I don't believe anything about it until she is under oath

The only version of this story that has any teeth is the one told by Comey, he is the only person there who has truthfully testified under oath as to what happened.

And speaking of under oath, why hasn't Ms, Asshat been in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee?

[gratuitous]

10. Captured my sentiments exactly

As I recall, when Andrew and Alberto dropped by in the middle of the night to pay their respects, the phone in the room rang, and Mrs. Ashcroft answered it before handing it over to one of the visitors. Who called Ashcroft's hospital room in the middle of the night and got through? And how did the caller know that Card and Gonzales were there at just that moment?

[lonestarnot]

12. Me either!

[spanone]

7. i'm surprised they didn't bring some portable torturing device

approved by asswipe himself.

[Kat 333]

28. Yes ...

Perhaps a CD Player. They could force Asscroft to listen to "Let The Eagle Soar" ... Over and over and over

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Jack Goldsmith could play an important role

in future investigations. His retelling of the meeting at Ashcroft's hospital-bedside meeting is directly contradictory to Gone-zo's recollection...at least the parts where he didn't invoke 'I don't recall.'

[pathansen]

9. Thanks for this post

Too bad more people were not aware that this happened back when it happened.
I still feel Congress should subpoena John Ashcroft. We need to prove that Bush was behind this.

[rateyes]

11. arred and kayed

:kick:

[malaise]

13. I can't wait for the movie

Damn!!

[bahrbearian]

15. With, Natalie Mains ,Playing Mrs Ashcroft., then the Chicks could ,

breakout playing "Not ready to make Nice",,, it could be a musical.

[SpiralHawk]

14. "You republicon homelander chickenhawks are a shameful lot" - Ms Ashcroft

"YOU freaking republicon homelander EVIL DOERS, you -- Why do you hate America?"

- Ms Ashcroft

[LiberalFighter]

16. Goldsmith

From page 1

A 40-year-old law professor at the University of Chicago, Goldsmith had established himself, with his friend and fellow law professor John Yoo, as a leading proponent of the view that international standards of human rights should not apply in cases before U.S. courts.

Nine months later, in June 2004, Goldsmith resigned. Although he refused to discuss his resignation at the time, he had led a small group of administration lawyers in a behind-the-scenes revolt against what he considered the constitutional excesses of the legal policies embraced by his White House superiors in the war on terror. During his first weeks on the job, Goldsmith had discovered that the Office of Legal Counsel had written two legal opinions — both drafted by Goldsmith’s friend Yoo, who served as a deputy in the office — about the authority of the executive branch to conduct coercive interrogations. Goldsmith considered these opinions, now known as the “torture memos,” to be tendentious, overly broad and legally flawed, and he fought to change them. He also found himself challenging the White House on a variety of other issues, ranging from surveillance to the trial of suspected terrorists. His efforts succeeded in bringing the Bush administration somewhat closer to what Goldsmith considered the rule of law — although at considerable cost to Goldsmith himself. By the end of his tenure, he was worn out. “I was disgusted with the whole process and fed up and exhausted,” he told me recently.

[Lars39]

17. So she *was* there.

I hope someday she'll testify against them.

[blogslut]

18. Mr. Goldsmith's book sounds very interesting

I may just have to buy that one. :)

[DeepModem Mom]

19. K&R

[DemReadingDU]

20. So was Comey in the hospital room?

Maybe I missed it in this article, but why doesn't Goldsmith say that Comey was in the room? Goldsmith talks about Comey being the AG, and that Card & Gonzales came to see Ashcroft in the hospital room. But I guess we are to infer the Comey was in the room too?

[Disturbed]

22. Yes, Comey was there & Asscroft confirmed Comey's account

in a secret Congressional Hearing, which was not publicized much. I did read a New article about it. It was reported that Asscroft confirmed Comey's testimony of that event.

[DemReadingDU]

27. I also heard Comey's testimony

that Comey said he was in the room with Ashcroft and saw Gonzales and Card.

But why didn't Goldsmith, in this NYT magazine article, confirm that Comey was there?

[Supersedeas]

21. what utter slime balls -- just absolute creepiness, yet they fools held the highest legal offices in

the most powerful country in the world

[Bucky]

23. Hand this story to anyone who still supports "right to carry" laws.

In a well armed society, Mrs Ashcroft might've solved our Gonzales related problems right there.

And we'd all be discussing what a disaster Attorney General Olson or Attorney General Yoo was.

[Disturbed]

25. Will we ever find out exactly who sent Gonzo & Card to

that hospital?

[Bucky]

26. "Senator, I don't recall."

I do admire Mr Bush for hiring the mentally challenged.