Moreso if it's (a) being done at "an odd hour", (b) being done in a hurry, (c) if people who might have some interest in it (like doctors or family members) are excluded from the proceedings, (d) if there's any degree of force or compulsion being exercised - even just verbal persuasion, or (e) the people know (or should know) the signer is doped up or in pain or medically weak.

Of course, under "undue influence", the usual topic of the litigation is getting the new Will or Codicil tossed out and the old one back in place.  I worked a case about 5 or 10 years ago where the people who were accused of undue influence went so far as to hold a portable tape recorder at the mouth of the decedent (he died a few hours after their escapade), and getting him to say that he wanted these influencers to get the couple hundred thousand he had in some bank accounts.  The core of those cases is, though, that people find out about the chicanery.  We were never supposed to find out about the Rethugs' chicanery, which is what makes this all the more interesting - it shows the kind of people these are.

So, while we knew people from the WH had gone over to get As*croft's signature while he was sick, today we got new detail on the level of skullduggery going on, and we got some indication that this NSA wiretapping was a Deadeye-Addington production, with The Unit as a figurehead executive producer. Or, maybe that corner of the story's just another level of "Protect Bushie" in operation.

Fascinating, how Card simply did not acknowledge Comey's existence in the hospital room.

Now, what I'd really like to do, is get As*croft under oath to find out whether he didn't retire, but rather was shoved out to Make Way for Gonzo as a pliable lackey in charge of DoJ was what was really needed by the Deadeye project.  Like the USAs who were too "independent".

I also note that No-F'g-One has bothered to try commenting on my most recent diary - Priming the Deadeye Impeachment Pump - under which I see four of the proposed "charge topics" would easily fit around the Admin's conduct in this instance:  

1.     Seditious conspiracy.
   
2.     Conspiracy to violate the FISA
   
3.     Violating the FISA.
   
11.    Usurpation of power.

Wow. Now. What was the result?

Thus, the White House did not get DOJ's approval. According to Comey, he later was able to pursuade President Bush, in a one-on-one meeting, not to proceed with the plan DOJ had declined to sign-off on.

It seems to me that Gonzales had the right, as a general matter, to raise this matter with Ashcroft. However, it would have been wrong for Gonzales to try to get Ashcroft's approval if he knew or should have known that, due to illness, Ashcroft was unable properly to consider the matter. This is what Comey feared was going to happen when he rushed to the hospital, and it seems to be what Comey came to think was happening after Gonzales arrived (I don't understand, though, how Gonzales could have gotten Ashcroft to reverse the DOJ's position if he was no longer the AG -- did Gonzales not realize this?). However, nothing in Comey's account (which, admittedly, I read quickly) convinces me that Comey's impresssion is correct. Ashcroft was able to address the matter very cogently, although in Comey's plausible account he would rather not have had to.

The Demos and their friends from the Left have wounded the military and smashed the DOJ... of course on the positive side they have managed to pass 12 bills renaming or naming some federal buildings.... and decided to sic the CIA on global warming... I wonder who they will spy on??? Will the code name be "Written On the Wind?" Or, "How We Wasted the Nations Intellogence Agency And Let The Terrorists Win?"

What Giants these people are.

If I remember correctly, Ashcroft had a painful pancreatic disease... I see nothing there that would indicate that his reasoning ability would be impacted, or that someone shouldn't see him on government business

And how wrongwing radical must the WH be for:

the F.B.I. director ordered Mr. Ashcroft's security detail not allow Mr. Comey "to be removed from the room under any circumstances." And after the meeting, Mr. Comey refused Mr. Card's request at 11 p.m. to go to the White House:

I responded that, after the conduct I had just witnessed, I would not meet with him without a witness present.

He replied, What conduct? We were just there to wish him well.

And I said again, After what I just witnessed, I will not meet with you without a witness. And I intend that witness to be the solicitor general of the United States.