Friday, August 17, 2007

So, what's new?

Notes taken by the director of the F.B.I. say Attorney General John Ashcroft was "barely articulate" shortly after a hospital-room meeting in March 2004 in which two White House aides tried to persuade him to sign an extension for domestic eavesdropping

Teaser on the front page of the NY Times 8/17/07

And this was different from other times, how?

(For the full article, go here.)

3 comments:

Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper said...

I hope John Conyers perseveres. I wasn't happy to hear that protesters in his office were arrested.

Leanderthal
Lighthouse Keeper

Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper said...

Keep it up. We need to go after the elected mafia without let up.

The Old New Englander said...

Even Conyers has to run an office, and he has to get along with his colleagues in Congress. We can't expect him to be perfect, even if we can agree what perfect is.