What Did Bush Tell Gonzales?
Sources say Alberto Gonzales now claims that President Bush personally directed him to John Ashcroft's hospital room in the infamous wiretap renewal incident
Although this president is famously known for rarely becoming immersed in the details--even on the issues he cares the most about--Gonzales has painted a picture of Bush as being very much involved when it came to his administration's surveillance program. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Too long. Links to story. Some writing too personalized
In an interview with Dan Richman.a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan and professor at Columbia Law Schoo, Richman indicated that Gonzales appears to be attempting to walk the thin line of taking himself out of harms way, while at the same time protecting the president; a strategy that very well could work: I think he is serving his own purposes and the White Houses purposes, Richman said.