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Edited on Thu May-17-07 05:11 PM by pnwmom
of a story from ANONYMOUS sources, and hearing all the gory details from Comey himself.
Tony Snow's line is that this is "old conversations." Do you think Dems are helped by pushing Snow's "this is old" meme, there's nothing here to see, let's just move on?
I think that Comey's live testimony WAS shocking, and it added a great many details that hadn't been in the NYTimes anonymous report. For example, we now know that the Bush administration went ahead and reauthorized the wiretapping program WITHOUT the approval of the Justice Department. And, a few weeks later, the only reason Bush decided to make the required changes for Justice Department approval was because of the threat of mass resignations -- as in the Saturday Night Massacre (as Arlen Specter alluded to.)
But for several weeks, Bush was running the program in blatant violation of the law.
I blame the media for not following up on the NYTimes story, not the Dems. Until a few months ago, when we attained the majority in Congress, we couldn't subpoena Comey. The previous Republican committee heads accepted the Bush administration's decision not to allow Comey to testify, and there was nothing the Democrats could do.
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