I keep wondering what Cheney, Rove, and Bush were doing that was was so important (to them) that they sent Gonzales to try and get the bedridden Ashcroft to continue to sign off on it, even after the DOJ had determined it was clearly illegal?
We know they were spying, and most likely it was that they were intercepting clearly domestic communications between American citizens. But what about the those communications did Cheney and Bush find so important? To find out about the "what", let's take a look at the "when".
The hospital-room showdown with Gonzales, Ashcroft, Comey, and Andy Card, took place in March 2004. What big news events happened in that time-frame? Well, in April 2004 the Abu Ghraib scandal broke.
Yes, only one one month after the "program" was altered, the Abu Ghraib scandal hit the front-pages in the US.
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