Comments on: Iglesias: Ashcroft Was ‘Pushed Out’ Because He ‘Refused To Sign Off On The Warrantless Wiretaps’

By: republicanSScareme

republicanSScareme — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:25:50 +0000

The hospital scene sounds like it came right out of “The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich.”

Does anybody know any German folk songs?

By: Jackie Morgan

Jackie Morgan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:38:13 +0000

IGLESIAS: The one really intriguing question I’ve had was from a book buyer a few months ago who asked whether I thought John Ashcroft had been pushed out or not after he refused to sign off on the warrantless wiretaps. That’s something that a journalist has never asked me. The honest answer is, yes, that had Ashcroft done the wrong thing, the unconstitutional thing, and signed off on it, he’d probably still be the AG. But Ashcroft served honorably. He did the right thing, and he paid the price. He was asked to move on.

Iglesias thinks the right thing was to remain quiet and let this criminal administration continue to operate?

Was the right thing for Democrats to confirm Gonzales?

When are we going to have representation in Congress that is loyal to the Constitution and not to their fellow partisans in their respective political parties?

By: theswan

theswan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:22:46 +0000

Never a judge to convict!

By: theswan

theswan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:21:37 +0000

When will there be enough evidence to impeach?

By: dixie blood

dixie blood — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:06:31 +0000

Let’s be clear here before this a$$wipe drops dead and the concern trolls show up…

A$$croft did NOTHING to stand up against the bullsh|t this admin was promoting…he is another very useless traitor and RePugniScum…oops, I’m being redundant…

The moron could write a book if he phucking cared!! But, he doesn’t give 2 sh|ts about democracy or the working class!!!

Trolls, I’m saying this while he’s alive and I will say it when he’s dead…totally useless…traitor bastard!!!!

And I hope his family reads this over and over again!!!

By: Nofoolhere

Nofoolhere — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:57:12 +0000

Hell! And all this time I thought Ashcroft was let go for singing pop songs and refusing to sing country.

By: tokin librul

tokin librul — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:51:31 +0000

Q U E S T I O N:
Can Congress, on the behest of the president, pass ex post facto legislation that violates the Fourth Amendment?

Is it legal when the president signs into law, bills that blatantly violate the Constitution of the USA?

Sounds like questions for a constitutional law scholar, innit?

Sen. Obama, would you care to respond?

By: tokin librul

tokin librul — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:49:14 +0000

Every time I hear David Iglesias talk about his firing as USAtty, I have to wonder just how corrupt, how crooked, how criminal, really, are those 100 or so political hack/DoJ appointees who didn’t get fired? The Siegelman thing in Alabama is one prominent case. They’ve had almost a decade to screw around and hide their tracks. I think it safe to say that no matter the outcome of the ‘election’ in November, there are official and bureaucratic ‘neo-con bombs’ planted in every office of Govt.

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:31:12 +0000

But a fair segment of our Democratic Congress rolled over on its back for the program and showed its yellow belly.

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:43:14 +0000

Lemme see — Ashcroft was “pushed out” because he didn’t march in lockstep with the criminals while stoned out of his gourd.

Wow — they’re harsh.

By: carver

carver — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:04:26 +0000

Telling me what integrity Ashcroft had because of a correct decision he once made (when he was stoned)is like telling me how much one admired Hitler because he loved dogs. Nor do I consider Iglesias a paragon of virtue just because he got fired by an asshat.

By: Chuck Feney

Chuck Feney — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:37:54 +0000

Ashcroft had integrity? Who knew? He hid it well (behind the same material he covered the Goddess of Justice?)

By: Nashoba nowa

Nashoba nowa — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:32:53 +0000

The Bush Whitehouse is nothing more than a den of iniquity.

By: Zimzone

Zimzone — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:26:00 +0000

Ashcroft may have lied less than Gonzales, does that make him ‘good’?

After all, he did lose an election to a dead man…

By: JMOHR

JMOHR — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:03:54 +0000

I read the article. I do not know where Iglesias would have had the inside information to make that statement. He is making a supposition as to what happened. However, absent being involved in the actual decision making or having been so informed by someone in the loop or by Aschcroft, he would not have personal knowledge. I love TP but it is wrong in phrasing it as TP did.

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:03:04 +0000

Q U E S T I O N:
Can Congress, on the behest of the president, pass ex post facto legislation that violates the Fourth Amendment?

Is it legal when the president signs into law, bills that blatantly violate the Constitution of the USA?

By: Tired Of Fighting

Tired Of Fighting — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:01:02 +0000

Now if only we could get more “book buyer’s” on T.V., radio, newspapers, and Congress, then we could finally get some answers.

RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 In (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq

By: texaslady

texaslady — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:59:37 +0000

Of course when Ashcroft decided to obey the law he was still under pain medication. Probably if he had his mind clear he would have gone along with his buddy.

By: RantingTommy

RantingTommy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:55:10 +0000

Republican pledge:

I pledge allegiance to the fear
Of the United States of Paranoia
And to the Republicans
For which it stands
One nation, under terror
With liberty and justice for those that can afford it

GET THESE FEAR MONGERING TERRORISTS OUT OF OUR GOVT!

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:54:41 +0000

liberal traitor Says:
“Perhaps in this one instance the man displayed some decency and respect for the rule of law.”

I don’t think respect for the law had anything to do with it. It was his fear of being found out and prosecuted for abetting the Bush Crime Syndicate that was his driving factor.