Preet Bharara, a scholar in residence at New
York University Law School, was U.S. attorney for the Southern District
of New York from 2009 until this March.
The
most dramatic hearing I helped to arrange as chief counsel to a Senate
subcommittee took place 10 years ago Monday, when James B. Comey, then
deputy attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, described how he and FBI Director Robert Mueller intervened at the hospital bedside of Attorney General John Ashcroft.
The encounter occurred in 2004,
after White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. and White House
Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales tried to overrule Comey’s and Mueller’s
legal objection to a secret terrorist surveillance program. When the
White House nonetheless sought the ailing Ashcroft’s blessing to
proceed, Comey prepared to resign. Ultimately, Comey and Mueller
prevailed.
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Source: The Washington Post (via The Empire Report)
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