Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
This part of the Cheney Method is adaptable by any ambitious successor: Palin or Biden need only hire wisely. Cheney's top advisers, "Scooter" Libby and David Addington, were brilliant bureaucratic operators. Cheney empowered his aides by making them "assistants to the president," the same rank held by Andrew Card and Karl Rove. He arranged for them to be bcc'd on e-mails sent around...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
It's worthwhile to take a look back at one of the many dark days of the Bush Administration to remind yourself why control of the executive branch must be removed from Republican hands. You might recall the 2004 infamous bedside visit by Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card to strong-arm John Ashcroft, who was in an intensive-care unit at the time. They wanted him to reauthorize Bush's illegal...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
The hospital visit is already central to many contemporaneous historical accounts of the Bush presidency. At the time of the visit, Ashcroft had been in intensive care for six days, was heavily medicated, and was recovering from emergency surgery to remove his gall bladder. Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey has said that he believes that Gonzales and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card,...
Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Remember that dang midnight ride of Comey racing to get to the hospital, Godfather-scene style, to protect Ashcroft, who was in intensive care, from Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card? At the time of the visit, Ashcroft had been in intensive care for six d.......
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
The hospital visit is already central to many contemporaneous historical accounts of the Bush presidency. At the time of the visit, Ashcroft had been in intensive care for six days, was heavily medicated, and was recovering from emergency surgery to remove his gall bladder. Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey has said that he believes that Gonzales and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card,...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
... General James B. Comey has said that he believes that Gonzales and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who accompanied Gonzales to Ashcroft’s hospital room, were trying to take advantage of Ashcroft’s grievously ill state—pressing him to sign the certification possibly without even comprehending what he was doing—and in the process authorize a government surveillance program which...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
... General James B. Comey has said that he believes that Gonzales and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who accompanied Gonzales to Ashcroft's hospital room, were trying to take advantage of Ashcroft's grievously ill state--pressing him to sign the certification possibly without even comprehending what he was doing--and in the process authorize a government surveillance program...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
A reader notes: What's extraordinary, yet unsurprising, about Gellman's revelation is the degree to which it reveals Cheney's complete contempt for Bush. A contempt shared, apparently, by Andrew Card and Scooter Libby. Knowing that the chief law enforcement officer of...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
... voice as he read the statement others had written for him reminded me of the time, on 9-11, when Andrew Card interrupted the President's reading of "The Pet Goat" to schoolchildren to whisper in his ear that the country had just been attacked. As you may recall, our President did not leap into action. He sat there for what seemed an eternity before excusing himself to deal with the...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... but said Lindauer was disturbed.Lindauer, a distant relative of former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, claimed she was targeted by the government for saying the Iraq war would be a disaster. She insisted on going to trial to defend herself against the charges.At that time doctors for both the defense and prosecution found she suffered from delusions of grandeur and paranoia."I...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... but said Lindauer was disturbed.Lindauer, a distant relative of former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, claimed she was targeted by the government for saying the Iraq war would be a disaster. She insisted on going to trial to defend herself against the charges.At that time doctors for both the defense and prosecution found she suffered from delusions of grandeur and paranoia."I...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
... attempt to influence United States policy."The U.S. official was former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, a distant cousin of Lindauer, who comes from a wealthy Republican family.Lindauer worked for the Seattle P-I for 13 weeks in 1987 as a temporary reporter, and for The Herald in Everett in 1989 as an editorial writer, where co-workers recalled her as a woman who was prone...
Brendan Nyhan (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... of the media and its role in the democratic process. For instance, then-White House chief of staff Andrew Card told the New Yorker "They don't represent the public any more than other people do. In our democracy, the people who represent the public stood for election... I don't believe [the press has] a check-and-balance function." When McCain's campaign was preventing the media from...
ALBANYS INSANITY (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... 9 a.m. - President Bush arrives at Sarasota, Fla., school for speech. White House chief of staff Andrew Card tells him a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. 9:03 a.m. - United Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the South Tower at the World Trade Center. - U.S. Federal Aviation Administration shuts down all New York area airports. 9:05 a.m. - President Bush is visiting...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
nation and worldWoodward exposes Bush "secrets"The Associated PressArticle Last Updated: 08/19/2008 01:16:22 AM MDTBob Woodward appears before speaking with Carl Bernstein in this Monday Dec. 5, 2005 file photo, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Former White House chief of staff Andrew Card twice sought to persuade President Bush to...
