CONGRESS TO CALL ASHCROFT TO TESTIFY-Re Hospital Rm Eavesdropping-Confrontation

Congress to call on Ashcroft to testify.“The Senate and House Intelligence Committees are asking former attorney general John Ashcroft to testify about a March 2004 hospital-room confrontation during which he refused to sign off on a continuation of President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program.”

The sources, who asked not to identified talking about sensitive matters, said the Senate Intelligence Committee has tentatively scheduled a closed-door hearing for later this month. The panel plans to question Ashcroft, his former chief of staff David Ayres and former deputy attorney general James Comey about a heated dispute with the White House that roiled the Justice Department three years ago. The House committee is also planning a separate closed-door hearing with Ashcroft, according to a spokeswoman for Ashcroft.

The requests for Ashcroft’s testimony reflect the mounting frustration on the part of committee leaders in both chambers who feel they have been denied vital information about the wiretapping issue by the Bush administration.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/congress-to-call-on-ashcroft-to-testify/

If you've ever had surgery and were sedated for paid afterward, you'll know you don't remember much if anything at all about what transpired while you were sedated. THAT'S the very reason executives turn over power to someone else BEFORE surgery! My guess is that the only thing he will be able to testify to is that he and Comey had a conversation prior to his transfer of power in which they agreed the snooping plan was illegal.

which may indeed indicate he was out of it, this is after all John "Patriot Act" Ashcroft we're talking about here.

So he remembers SOMETHING. My guess is he remembers exactly what happened.

They also need to talk to his wife to see who it was that called her and told her that Andy Card & Gonzo were headed to the hospital. My guess is.... the dictator-tot in chief.

:kick:

And I forgot almost all of it. I was acting and communicating at the time, but very little of it stuck in my memory.

This is way more than recovering from anesthesia and then being on morphine (which I also did a couple of months ago). It's entirely possible that if he says, "I don't recall," he's telling the truth.

He ought to remember the meetings and discussions from before he got sick, though. They probably ought to be talking to his wife. And Gonzalez and Card.

A Republican who "Can't remember Shit". Where is the precedence?

This damn plot is about as thick as molasses, and it just keeps on getting thicker.

Last time, I rooted for the dead guy.

On edit: How about Mrs. Ashcroft?

Pigs must be streaking across the sky today. :rofl:

:scared:

She may have only been concerned about protecting her husband, or she could have been privy to the whole thing from the start and knew they were up to shenanigans.
Probably one of those things we'll never know.

Was she at the center of this, like so many other things? I'm going to have to check some dates.

"Barbara Comstock is a longtime Republican political operative. After she served as the chief spokeswoman for Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Justice Department in 2002 and 2003, Comstock, an attorney, joined the government relations arm of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Blank Rome in 2003."

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/barbaracomstock

But I definitely want to know more about her role in...well, everything.

and let's kick this
and recommend it too.

:kick:

glc

Call me jaded.

The Ashcroft testimony will be a 'clear the calender' day. That's a must not miss!

John Ashcroft. The gift that keeps on giving. :hi:

This is just spinning wheels. Have Gonzo and CARD testified under oath specifically about this? We need TRACTION, not more spinning wheels.