An Absolute Must Read

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If you read only one more thing today, this should be it.

It’s the transcript of the long exchange today between Sen. Chuck Schumer and former Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, during Comey’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Comey relates the full story surrounding the re-authorization of the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program in March 2004.

It’s an astounding story—the Bush administration frozen for all time in one of its lowest moments.

Even more astounding is the fact that George Bush, Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card will still be able to look people in the eye tomorrow, after everyone has read the story and seen the clips on TV.

At least all of America will be weeping, for what we have done to ourselves through these men.

Comments

  1. sarabeth says:
    May 15, 2007 at 3:09 pm

    I’ve only just finished reading it myself.

    There are really no words, there’s just spluttering outrage, and obscenities too obscene even to be formed into language.

    How unbelievable is this:

    I handed the phone to the head of the security detail and Director Mueller instructed the FBI agents present not to allow me to be removed from the room under any circumstances.

    This is the acting attorney general enlisting the director of the FBI to protect himself against gestapo tactics by the White House counsel and the White House chief of staff at the hospital bed of a very sick, possibly dying, man.

    And FBI agents are actually ordered to refuse to be bullied by these senior White House officials.

    Bloody wow!

  2. mikebee says:
    May 15, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    wow, definitely mindblowing, thanks for the tip on that.