So this is what it is about! The significance of the Ashcroft hospital bed visit

[JDPriestly]

becomes clear in a timeline presented on The Next Hurrah

Here is what Emptywheel says:


Commenter joejoejoe sent me a superb timeline to show the chronology of Congress' building opposition to the Total Information Awareness program as it relates to the NSA's domestic wiretap program (how cool is that? I, the chronology weenie, am getting timelines out of the blue! Better than Christmas!!), which appears at the bottom of this post.

I'd like to pull out just a few salient dates and add four (in bold italics) to what joejoejoe did. I think the time line lends support for the argument that one of the problems--a big problem--with the domestic wiretap program is that it violated clear instructions from Congress.

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http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/07/tia-and-tsp.html

So, this suggests that Bush was clearly violating the law if he continued the TIA program as is suspected. Wow! No wonder Roberts is had a stress seizure. This is mighty powerful stuff if this means what I suspect it means.