Former Justice Department Official Details Gonzales Dirty Tricks

If they were kids, the scenario would go like this:

Mom won’t give us what we want so we’ll ask dad, even though he is really busy right now, maybe he will let us do it because he is distracted.

Well it rarely works for kids and it didn’t work for the Bush Administration. Wanting to implement more illegal wiretaps and other sneaking stuff, Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card try to get what they want by going to John Ashcroft when he was really busy…recovering from pancreatitis. It’s called an "End Run" and it’s the kind of thing the Bushies are expert at. Cant do something with the legal checks and balances, finagle a way around them and do it anyway.

Testimony by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey tells a tale of deceit and dirty tricks on a scale that was threatening to cause a mass resignation in the Justice Department. Eventually all those folks did resign and now we are left with Gonzo and his toadies.

The Washington Post has more of this sickening tale of our lawless President and his wrongdoings.