when as assistant Attorney-General to John Ashcroft<\/a>, he stood between the attorney general, bed-ridden in intensive care, and two key White House aides in the George W. Bush administration.\u00a0 White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales and President Bush’s chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., wanted Ashcroft to sign off on Bush\u2019s reauthorization of the domestic surveillance program, which the Justice Department had just determine was illegal. Comey kept the two from steam-rolling Ashcroft and the result was that the domestic surveillance program was not renewed at that time.<\/p>\nThere obviously was another part of me wondering how good could Comey be if he was the Number Two person to the Bible-thumping reality-challenged Attorney General from Missouri. But then again, I had seen some decent Republicans in my day including Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Earl Warren and John Lindsay. These are all people who would not have been let into the Quicken Arena in Cleveland last July for the Republican National Convention because they wouldn\u2019t check their empathy at the door.<\/p>\n
I should have known that if Comey was in the good graces of Bush and Ashcroft, that he was not an upstanding fellow like Lewis Erskine from \u201cThe F.B.I.\u201d But if I was fooled, I was in good company with the likes of perhaps America\u2019s best judge of character, Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
The old saying, \u201cFool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me\u201d seems to apply here. So I guess that my feelings for Comey have gone from bewilderment to something called \u201cpissed empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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