Ashcroft: Maybe I make better decisions on 'morphine'

[G_j]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/I_make_right_call_when_I_1211.html

Ashcroft: Maybe I make better decisions on 'morphine'
Stephen C. Webster
Published: Thursday December 11, 2008

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, in an entirely under-reported November interview, claimed that he makes the best decisions "when I have a lot of morphine in my system."

In a conversation with Fora TV, Ashcroft was confronted with a question about a March 2004 incident, in which the former AG was visited by his would-be successor as he lay sedated in a hospital bed.

Ashcroft was asked by Gonzales to re-authorize a controversial domestic spying program, over the objections of Ashcroft's deputy, James Comey. He refused to reverse the Justice Department's decision, sparking a power struggle which saw the White House re-authorize its own program without the approval of the Justice Department.

In the interview, Ashcroft did not deny the sequence of events, but called the tale a "heated dispute," and refused to confirm any further details.

That's when he said, "So, I think the system worked. And I'm glad that it did. It may not prove a whole lot about a lot of things. It may just prove that when I have a lot of morphine in my system, I make the right decisions."

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[elleng]

1. Yup, its true;

he did!

[XemaSab]

2. Why do I feel so all alone?

EVERYBODY must get stoned. :D

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

3. I translate better with some whiskey in me, so why not?

[catzies]

4. I think he's so relaxed he can forget and let the truth slip out then dismiss it as

being under the influence.

Isn't the Attorney General some kind of officer in the War on Drugs, after all?

[EFerrari]

5. I've always thought that the reason Torquemada was appointed AG

was to cover for the fact that he signed in the absence of Ashcroft.

If anyone had told me it would get worse than Ashcroft, I wouldn't have believed it.