Yes, He Did

You hopefully heard the Congressional testimony of a former deputy attorney general who recounted that the President ordered then White House Chief of Staff Andy Card and then White House Consul Alberto Gonzalez to the bedside of then Attorney General Ashcroft, who was on his sixth day in the Intensive Care Unit, to try and get him to reauthorize the warrentless wiretapping program. According to the testimony, Ashcroft had previously stated his opposition to the program on the grounds that it was illegal (Yes, Ashcroft actually doing something right). Ashcroft, though disoriented from illness, still told Card and Gonzalez that he wouldn’t sign. Listen to how Bush doesn’t deny when a reporter asks him if he did in fact order Card and Gonzalez to the hospital that night.