Bush on Comey: I'm not talking about it

The president refuses to address testimony about a hospital-room showdown over warrantless wiretaps.

Published May 17, 2007 3:50PM (EDT)

At a White House press conference, George W. Bush was just asked if he sent Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales to John Ashcroft's hospital room to get him to reauthorize the administration's warrantless wiretapping program. The president's response: "There's a lot of speculation about what happened and what didn't happen, and I'm not going to talk about it."

We'll take that as a yes.


By Tim Grieve

Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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