Report: Bush Directed Gonzo To Ashcroft's Hospital Bed

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Report: Bush Directed Gonzo To Ashcroft's Hospital Bed
By Zachary Roth - September 26, 2008, 2:00PM

Murray Waas reports on the website of the Atlantic that Alberto Gonzales is now telling investigators that he was being personally directed by President Bush when, as White House counsel, Gonzales made a much-discussed late-night visit in 2004 to the hospital room of then Attorney General John Ashcroft, in order to get Ashcroft to certify that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program was legal.

During Congressional testimony last year, Gonzales repeatedly refused to answer persistent questioning from Sen. Chuck Schumer as to whether the president, or Vice President Cheney, had directed him to seek out Ashcroft in the hospital.

Cheney himself told CNN's Larry King shortly afterward: "I don't recall that I gave instructions to that effect."

It's an important question, because its answer would shed light on the extraordinary lengths to which the president was willing to go to see the wiretap program reauthorized. At the time of the hospital-room meeting, Ashcroft, in Waas's words, "had been in intensive care for six days, was heavily medicated, and was recovering from emergency surgery to remove his gall bladder."


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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/report_bush_directed_gonzo_to.php

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1. Confirmation of what we already knew but its good to see

that Gonzalez is scared shitless.