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I hope I'm wrong, but it seems like there's a fat chance that any of the important details will make it into the mainstream news cycle. I just looked at the Yahoo news headlines and right below "Expert: Iraq Will Become 'Terrorist Disneyland' if US leaves" is "Ex-official: Ashcroft Had Concerns Over Wiretaps." You have an alarming story about people rushing to a hospital in order to prevent a gross abuse of power by Card and Gonzales -- government officials who, in the words of Schumer, "were trying to take advantage of an ill and maybe disoriented man to try and get him to do something that many, at least in the Justice Department, thought was against the law." But "Had Concerns Over Wiretaps" -- that's their lead.
