Ashcroft Hospital Bed Confrontation

Gonzalez and Card confronting Ashcroft and Comey is big breaking news, right? Well, it is, unless, as Meatball One reminds us, you happened to read about it January 1, 2006 in the New York Times, as mentioned in this blog on that very day.

The blogger, Effwit, also mentioned that Ashcroft "refused to sign off on the program during the hospital visit. . . . That tidbit came out this afternoon in the online edition of Newsweek."

Yes. The big scoop of the week was Comey repeating in detail what was already public knowledge over a year ago.