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James Comey Video

By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Wed May 16, 2007 at 11:03:34 AM EST
Tags: Alberto Gonzales (all tags)
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Politics TV has the video of James Comey's testimony yesterday about his rush to the hospital to pre-empt Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card's attempt to get former Attorney General John Ashcroft to sign off on the extension of the warrantless NSA wiretap program.

Update: Don't miss Marcy Wheeler on Comey in The Guardian today, The Constitution is in Intensive Care.

Via Jane at Firedoglake, Glenn Greenwald provides context and the Washington Post editorial calls the White House actions alarming.

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The dramatic details should not obscure the bottom line: the administration's alarming willingness, championed by, among others, Vice President Cheney and his counsel, David Addington, to ignore its own lawyers. Remember, this was a Justice Department that had embraced an expansive view of the president's inherent constitutional powers, allowing the administration to dispense with following the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Justice's conclusions are supposed to be the final word in the executive branch about what is lawful or not, and the administration has emphasized since the warrantless wiretapping story broke that it was being done under the department's supervision.
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    If you haven't watched this yet (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by nolo on Wed May 16, 2007 at 09:26:35 PM EST
    Watch it.  This is all you need to know about our current administration, and (IMHO) it puts Nixon to shame.

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