In his testimony today, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey described an attempt by the White House in 2004 to go behind Comey’s back — even though he was the acting attorney general because Ashcroft was hospitalized — to get John Ashcroft’s signature on the reauthorization order for the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180831