Well, the IG-Report on the Domestic Surveillance Program is out today. Here are some snippets. This one is about the late night attempt to get Ashcroft to sign the authorization. Notice AG Alberto Gonzales saying that Ashcroft was "not in any condition to sign a renewal" [the very renewal he tried to get Ashcroft to sign the next day under orders from President Bush]:
There is a little something to mention – so obvious that it seems strange to even say it. In their defense, Bush and Cheney repeatedly say that they went to the DoJ to get legal advice on every aspect of their war on terror. Yet this story of Ashcroft and Comey and the night visitors is a dramatic refutation of their claims. They had spent days trying to pressure Goldsmith and Comey into approving their program, and failing at that they tried to get a delerious Ashcroft to sign a renewal. Failing that, they were pressing on with no legal backup except John Yoo’s previous blanket statement that the President was the Law, until they found out that much of the legal branch of the government was about to resign. So much for their love of the law…
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