review warrantless domestic program launched in the wake of 9/11 attacks. gonzalez and card tried to override then acting attorney general comey s objections to the program by going directly to his superior attorney general john ashcroft, who at the time was in the happened recovering from gallbladder surgery. tipped off by ashcroft s wife upset at her husband receiving visitors at such a delicate time comey raced to the hospital hoping to get to ashcroft before the white house aides. so i raced to the hospital room, entered. mrs. ashcroft was standing by the hospital bed. mr. ashcroft was lying down in the bed. the room was darkened, and i immediately began speaking to him trying to orient him to time and place and try to see if he could focus on what was happening. it wasn t clear to me eck. he seemed pretty bad off. comey made a call to then fbi director robert mueller who
entire episode might have been a ploy for pignataro to get his medical license back. he gave debbie poison. she developed gastric symptoms. he then tried to convince her doctors to perform gallbladder surgery that she wouldn t survive. had debbie died during surgery, tony could argue, as he did in sarah smith s case, that people occasionally die in surgery and that he shouldn t have been singled out. and in tony s eyes, that would have vindicated him. see, my own wife died under a doctor s care in a hospital while having surgery, and that s what we felt was his prime motivation. but why didn t she die from the massive dose of arsenic? medical experts say this was miscalculation. when tony gave his wife smaller doses of poison, she developed a tolerance for it, so the higher
medical license back. he gave debbie poison. she developed gastric symptoms. he then tried to convince her doctors to perform gallbladder surgery that she wouldn t survive. had debbie died during surgery, tony could argue, as he did in sarah smith s case, that people occasionally die in surgery and that he shouldn t have been singled out. and in tony s eyes that would have vindicated him. see, my own wife died under a doctor s care in a hospital while having surgery, and that s what we felt was his prime motivation. but why didn t she die from the massive dose of arsenic? medical experts say this was miscalculation. when tony gave his wife smaller doses of poison, she developed a tolerance for it, so the higher doses later had less of an
medical license back. he gave debbie poison. she developed gastric symptoms. he then tried to convince her doctors to perform gallbladder surgery that she wouldn t survive. had debbie died during surgery, tony could argue, as he did in sarah smith s case, that people occasionally die in surgery and that he shouldn t have been singled out. and in tony s eyes, that would have vindicated him. see, my own wife died under a doctor s care in a hospital while having surgery, and that s what we felt was his prime motivation. but why didn t she die from the massive dose of arsenic? medical experts say this was miscalculation. when tony gave his wife smaller doses of poison, she developed a tolerance for it, so the higher doses later had less of an effect. i m sure he was thinking, i can t believe she s still alive.
she developed gastric symptoms. he then tried to convince her doctors to perform gallbladder surgery that she wouldn t survive. had debbie died during surgery, tony could argue, as he did in sarah smith s case, that people occasionally die in surgery and that he shouldn t have been singled out. and in tony s eyes, that would have vindicated him. see, my own wife died under a doctor s care in a hospital while having surgery, and that s what we felt was his prime motivation. but why didn t she die from the massive dose of arsenic? medical experts say this was miscalculation. when tony gave his wife smaller