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EDITORIAL: Power point: Alberto Gonzales pays a visit to John Ashcroft.(Editorial)

May 17--How determined is the Bush White House to expand the boundaries of presidential power? On Tuesday, James Comey, a former deputy attorney general, answered the question with a chilling story for the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Comey recounted 48 hours in March 2004, starting with his refusal to reauthorize the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program. His view reflected the considered legal opinion of the Justice Department. Comey acted because John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, had been hospitalized for emergency gall bladder surgery.

In other words, Alberto Gonzales, then the president's counsel, and Andy Card, then the White House chief ...

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