Looking at the growing scandal surrounding the Bush administration and Justice Department, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart showed testimony delivered this week by former Justice Department official James Comey recounting an effort to pressurize former Attorney General John Ashcroft. Comey, who served as acting Attorney General while Ashcroft was hospitalized for surgery, recalled current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales arriving to Ashcroft’s hospital bed hoping to see him approve the administration’s warrant-less wiretapping program.
Responding to the testimony, New York Senator Charles Schumer said that “It makes you almost gulp.”
“Almost gulp?!” Exclaimed Stewart. “Almost gulp? What is it going to take to make you actually gulp? Do these guys have to sodomize the declaration of independence in front of you?”
By the way, here’s an interesting fact about Republican John Ashcroft, he got the Attorney General job as a prize for losing his Senate seat to a dead guy.
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