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"Feeble, Barely Articulate" Ashcroft Was Pressured By Gonzales To Approve Wiretap Program

AP   |  Lara Jakes Jordan   |   August 16, 2007 08:28 PM

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The White House demanded in 2004 that the Justice Department approve a secret national security program without allowing the ailing attorney general, "feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed," to discuss the matter with top advisers, according to the FBI director's personal notes.

The partially censored notes from FBI chief Robert S. Mueller, dated March 12, 2004, describe a distraught and feeble Attorney General John Ashcroft in his hospital room just moments after being visited by then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card, the president's chief of staff at the time.

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