If it is equipped with a cone of silence

It's their "get out of jail free" card. It's getting bit worn, though.

Yep, in spite of the Comey testimony, Andy Card still stands to "earn" (or have bestowed upon himself, like a prez. Medal of Freedom) an honorary doctorate from UMASS Amherst on May 25th for if nothing else, serving in government.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/05/umass_protestor.html

I guess being an ambulance chasing, law breaking bush boot licker never paid so well.. And here I thought you got a college degree by earning it thru hard work and dilligence.

breach of the law about a "specialized facility"? deaths in iraq of numerous army specialists? an attorney general who plays so dumb about the law that he looks like he belongs in special ed?

isn't it time for a special prosecutor?

is that Bush wiretapped Americans without any DOJ approval at all. That's not a gray area, it's a clear violation of law.

Bush has been quoted saying "you need a warrant to wiretap,"

so he clearly knew.

As bad as Nixon was, this is *way* worse. If Congress can't get up the gumption to impeach Bush for this, our republic is done.

Nailing these guys for discussing classified material in a hospital room would be like convicting Al Capone of tax evasion.

Whatever gets the job done, I guess.

What the Dems need to do now is subpoena Mrs. Ashcroft, to verify the details of Comey's statement.

Shades of Martha Mitchell.

Before being Chief of Staff, Andy Card was GM's Vice President of Government Relations, and he strong-armed the California government into dropping their ambitious alternative fuel laws. Prior to that, he was CEO of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, essentially a high-paid lobbyist for the Big Boys in Detroit.

with grubert. Impeach Now. Kill the head of the snake, and the rats will abandon ship.

People who aren't convinced of this administration's lawlessness by their willingness to send emissaries to an ICU-bound AG to get him to change his unequivocally stated opinion that their spying program was illegal, aren't going to be dragged across the line by the failure to use a room with a working Cone of Silence for this thuggish act. They wouldn't have needed a program beyond FISA if the agents of foreign powers, or any other actual threat to this nation's security, were the targets, so discussing this program where such agents might have been able to listen in would not have compromised national security. You have to enter into their reality-distortion field to accept the idea that this program actually dealt with matters whose compromise would endanger our national security. This program, rather, must have been designed to protect their electoral security, and any compromise to this program would do no harm beyond harm to that electoral security. And harm to the electoral security of the Republican political machine is a clear enhancement to the national security. Maybe Gonzalez actually does deserve that Freedom Medal he will undoubtedly be getting soon.

I like that. Reminds me of what my mom told us to do at the dinner table. Too bad Cheney and Libby didn't use it more often. Libby probably would be out practicing his golf swing now instead of practicing baking cakes with files in them...

Here's my question: if they had gotten Ashcroft to sign it, what then? Ashcroft was not AG at the time, his signature would have been meaningless. What were they going to do, back-date it?

... like they did everything else.

It's up to "we the people" to make sure they don't get away with it.