It still reads like a scene from Godfather I when Al Pacino has to recruit a baker come to pay his respects to act like a heavy to drive off the corrupt cops and their mob paymasters. "Put your hand in your pocket like this so they think you are holding a piece."

What great logic you offer us.

Your first point: There is no statute requiring the AG to sign off. Follow this logic and the President is king without restraint. Hey, in the CFR regarding regulation of ways to define ketchup there is nothing directing an AG to object to illegal spying. There is something in the US Constitution, but where in the Constitution does it say statute? Boy, hard to argue with that logic. Of course this requires you ignore that this total Kabuki dance was just nothing when career beaurocrats who had no love for liberals or Dems declared the spying illegal and not only threatened but planned on resigning in protest. It also ignores how President "I obey no laws but God's" was will to back down and asked them to tell him what he could and couldn't do.

Which leads to your next point of irrefutable logic:

Ashcroft had signed off on this program 29 times previously. Wow, you know how to count how wonderful of you. No really, thank you for county because now you know that this was a program that Ashcroft had signed off on over almost thirty times before something happened that made him toss on the brakes and direct that he would no longer sign off or certify the program. Something happened that made a die hard Bushie loyalist so blanche that he said "Enough" and repeated that assertion while incoherant in a hospital bed with his wife by his side. Hmmm I wonder what changed his mind?

Point 3: What part of the transcript did you not read. Comey made it clear that Ashcroft ordered him not to sign off, refused to sign off himself, and on his hospital bed refused to sign off on Card and Gonzo's order and directed them to speak to his (according to you) rebellious context changing Asst. A.G. What part of "No" don't you understand?

Point 4: Comey was the thug: I'll stop laughing at you long enough to say this: Comey used his position as temp AG to uphold the decision Ashcroft had previously ordered. I can understand your point of view. I mean this is just like that time when George Bush I used his temporary presidency position in 1981 to stand by Reagan's tax cuts. I'm sure if Ted Kennedy and Tip O'Neil had rushed into Ronald Reagan's hospital room shortly after he was shot and heavily medicated (as was disoriented Ashcroft) to get him to sign off on a bill retracting his tax cuts, you, Shooter would be the first to call George Bush I for being a thug for stopping them.

Point 5: Glenn can't tell us what the White House is still successfully keeping hidden. Therefore he must be lying. Yeah, that's the ticket! If I kill someon and hide their body and the murder weapon then I must be innocent. Ergo. Unless you Shooter are hauled off to Guantonamo and beaten and tortured you may always relax in the knowledge that you are admired by this administration as a true blue patriot. Just don't complain. And he what you don't know not only can't hurt you it doesn't even exist. Keep hiding under your bed so the Reds or Islamofascists or that monster that made you pee in your pants as a child won't hide there while you are sleeping. Inquiry, to you, is obviously just for people just asking for trouble.

Point 6: Bush directed Comey to make the changes needed to get the AG to sign off. Proof positive that the program was legit and all Bush had to do was to take charge and order his underlings to make the changes they demanded to get things done. Hmmm... there are so many good analogies here. How about this. As the Commander Guy I order all Democrats be locked up and tossed into Quantanamo until after the last Bush family member has served as president. The AG's office complains that locking up Dems would violate the law and back it up by threatening to resign. I then, using my Decider Guy hat order that they immediately make the changes, rendering me incapable of doing anysuch thing, to make things legal. Yep, what a prime example of the AG caving to our glorious leaders wise decision making. BTW did you know that every year on Bush's birthday the sun always shines and the weather is always perfect on the mountain he was born upon?

Last point: If you are going to ask others to read the transcript, you might want to do so first. Comey's refusal to address a secret program is not a denial of everything Glenn, I and soon, so many others have read.

Uh right this is where I say something stupid like "Thanks for playing." Yeah, right, this is just a silly game for people who slept only through half of logic or poli sci. Steve Allen wrote about about this type of illogic called "Dumbf." You might want to read it.