Read our earlier post HERE about now Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ urgent trip to visit a hospitalized and ailing then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to pressure him to sign domestic spying orders that some in the Justice Department (including, it turns, out Ashcroft) refused to approve. But it’s one thing to read about it, another to actually watch and listen to the testimony of James B. Comey, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States, about an incident on the evening of March 10, 2004.
Question to Republicans, independents, and Democrats: putting aside political issues and a desire to see a given party win or lose have we ever seen an administration quite like this one? But watch it — and come to your OWN decision (this sometimes takes a while to load so be patient):
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.