Report: Gonzales Pointing Finger At Bush In Surveillance Investigation

The Atlantic:

In March 2004, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales made a now-famous late-night visit to the hospital room of Attorney General John Ashcroft, seeking to get Ashcroft to sign a certification stating that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program was legal. According to people familiar with statements recently made by Gonzales to federal investigators, Gonzales is now saying that George Bush personally directed him to make that hospital visit.

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Gonzales has also told Justice Department investigators that President Bush played a more central and active role than was previously known in devising a strategy to have Congress enable the continuation of the surveillance program when questions about its legality were raised by the Justice Department, as well as devising other ways to circumvent the Justice Department's legal concerns about the program, according to people who have read Gonzales's interviews with investigators. The White House declined to comment for this story. An attorney for Gonzales, George J. Terwilliger III, himself a former deputy attorney general, declined to comment as well.

Read the whole story: The Atlantic

Comments

[robXdion]

Bush needs McCain to win badly so he can get that pardon. I sense some ill deeds afoot soon.

[Tom95134]

Throw 'em all in the Federal Slammer. (Or better yet, turn them all over to Putin to set in one of the infamous gulags for a few years.)

[fistbump]

This spineless weasel, you knew he would break. Toadies usually do.

Bush and his thugs will go down in history as the worst President in history, and his administration will mark the decline of America as a superpower. It's a terribly sad legacy.

[gcallaghan]

After spilling his guts, Fredo will seek shelter in the Witless Protection Program

[Eoin45]

LOL.

[CaptainStormfield]

Fredo should stay out of small planes, dark alleys and lonely motel rooms..

[writerforhire]

Is anyone surprised at secret wiretapping devices being installed in John Ashcroft’s hospital room or in any one else's hospital room?

Post 9-11 permissions allow the government all the leeway it needs to enter into your home or mine and place monitoring "for national security purposes" devices anywhere they choose. The programs in place within the law that gave the permissions allows for any devices available to our government, in development or in place, to be used both inside and outside the intelligence community.

So remember Big Brother IS ALWAYS WATCHING!

[Jethro13]

You do realize that this article was about getting John to sign the thing. Not put wire taps in his hospital room.. Right?

[JohnnieP]

That's why W. ignored the intelligence he received during the Summer of '01 which said
Al-Cheida terrorists were training in flight schools across America with the intention of
staging an air attack against the United States.. He wanted his Patriot Act and all that went
with it.

[Eoin45]

I wouldn't hire you as a writer. You completely misread the story.

[usakaput]

AND WHY WASNT BUSH/CHENEY IMPEACHED? HOW ABOUT IT NANCY. PELOSI HAS GOT TO GO

[lovingpolitics]

SURPRISE?????? Once a a** kissing backstabber always a a** kissing backstabber!

[sugarmoes]

OF COURSE BUSH DIRECTED HIM!!!!! BUSH WAS HIS FRIGGIN BOSS!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!

i used to want impeachment.

now i want bush to serve his term and face war crimes trials.

[08politicaljunkie]

We only have four more months to go with his madness. A guilty verdict will make his aftermath endurable.

[mommadona]

FREDO SPILLS THE BEANS!

Next stop for Speedy Gonzales - The Hague.
Crimes against humanity.

In 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in The Hague (Netherlands) and the Rome Statute provides for the ICC to have jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The definition of what is a "crime against humanity" for ICC proceedings has significantly broadened from its original legal definition or that used by the UN,[1] and Article 7 of the treaty stated that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_humanity